Patti Smith
Patti Smith
Patricia Lee "Patti" Smith is an American singer-songwriter, poet, and visual artist who became a highly influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPunk Singer
Date of Birth30 December 1946
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
directed life open
As I go through life, I can see why my mother directed me that way, or why my father counseled me in that way. But some things you're open to when you're young, and some things you need to find out for yourself. I think that that's pretty universal.
depended life record threw
We never threw a record together. Each record was done really seriously, as if our life depended on it.
life
If I've learned one thing in life, it's not to be so judgmental of other people.
became best formed fully life loved met robert student though
Robert Mapplethorpe, I met in 1967. He was a student at Pratt, though even as a student a fully formed artist. We went through many things in our life together. He became my loved one, then my best friend.
art grow keeps life mind pursuit
The thing is that as you grow through life, the pursuit of art and the pursuit of new ideas, all these things keeps your mind elastic.
life roll
I loved being a rock and roll star, but it wasn't what I wanted in life.
good life
What I wanted in life always was to write something as good as 'Pinocchio.' I wanted to write. I wanted to evolve. I wanted to grow.
best coffee cup exciting great life million puts sky whether
For everything bad, there's a million really exciting things, whether it's someone puts out a really great book, there's a new movie, there's a new detective, the sky is unbelievably golden, or you have the best cup of coffee you ever had in your life.
deferred family happily life throughout
Throughout my life, I happily deferred to family, companions, children.
four hours life rhythm roll
You're not a rock n' roll person four hours a day or even when you're on stage. It's become the rhythm of your whole life.
important public-life
My public life was so demanding that I wasn't doing the things that I deemed the most important.
children live-life nurse
In the period where I had to live the life of a citizen - a life where, like everybody else, I did tons of laundry and cleaned toilet bowls, changed hundreds of diapers and nursed children - I learned a lot.
perfect life-is-like moments
Life is like a roller coaster. It's never going to be perfect - it is going to have perfect moments, and then rough spots, but it's all worth it.
inspirational life art
Art is by nature optimistic. Art is optimistic because it is alive.