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
book childhood world
I loved books; I read my childhood away. I was more interested in my interior world.
taken hands world
For I desired, as Youth does, to be taken by the hand and hurled into the world.
self world rooms
When I'm on my own with my camera, taking these pictures, it feels as if I am in a room of my own, a self-contained world.
philosophy shapes world
These are the times, the times of our own, these are the shapes the world we formed.
fashion clothes world
I know fashion is a material thing, but we live in a material world and I love clothes.
two world pockets
Polaroid by its nature makes you frugal. You walk around with maybe two packs of film in your pocket. You have 20 shots, so each shot is a world.
pie world
You can't carve up the world. It's not a pie.
black forests world
We were as Hansel and Gretel and we ventured out into the black forest of the world.
beautiful book world
I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book.
world lines neat
Life isn't some vertical or horizontal line -- you have your own interior world, and it's not neat.
certainly concept cut except girls piece screaming star tastes trying
I know what that tastes like, to be a rock-and-roll star - to have a limousine, to have girls screaming when they see you, girls trying to cut my hair, get a piece of me. But I don't walk around with a concept of myself as a rock-and-roll star, and certainly not as a musician, because I really can't play anything, except primitively.
good people
I know that some people have different personas for the different things they do, and I'm not criticizing that - maybe it's a good thing - but I'm the same old person, so I take everything in stride.
struck william
I knew William Burroughs really well, and I was always star struck being around him. I adored him.
drew early hear people songs suffer work
I like revisiting my early work, and people like to hear it. I don't make people suffer through any experimentation or new material. When I go see an artist, I want to hear the songs that drew me to them, so I do the same.