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
find-me ifs
Outside of society, if you're looking that's where you'll find me.
beauty horse england
Horses pretty much broke as a record in England.
movie stars artist
Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star.
children choices flannels
A lot of children don't have a developed aesthetic. I did. I made early choices in life, even about cloth; I liked flannel and not polyester.
views common-sense trying
What I say should always be prefaced with this: I'm not really politically articulate. I just try to be like Thomas Paine: what is common sense? So when I say these things to you, I am speaking from a humanist point of view. I just look around and see what's wrong.
christian thinking people
I don't think the area of Jerusalem should be part of a Jewish state; it belongs to all people, to Christians and Muslims and the Jewish people.
rivers egotism
Pissing in a river, watching it rise.
library jersey culture
I was raised in rural south Jersey, and there was no culture there. There was a small library, and that was it. There was nothing else.
blessedness
Blessedness is within us all.
happens
The things I thought would happen didn't. Things I never anticipated unfolded.
waste wasting-my-time my-time
I didn't waste my time on things I didn't love.
artist labels
Artists are traditionally resistant to labels.
self self-destructive self-destructive-behavior
There's nothing cool about being self-destructive.
children parent four
I was so unhealthy as a child, and at least three or four times my parents were told to get ready, that I would not make it.