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
wish paper projects
I wish I could just project everything on the paper,
rocks rock-n-roll musician
I'm not really a musician. I'm a performer and I love rock 'n' roll.
compassion irony moments
Within that moment was trust, compassion, and our mutual sense of irony. He was carrying death within him and I was carrying life. We were both aware of that, I know.
photograph concerned
Robert was concerned with how to make the photograph, and I with how to be the photograph.
makeup faces platforms
I don't wear makeup. I can't stand nothin' on my face. It's a phobia. It's not a platform.
perspective giving want
We learned we wanted too much. We could only give from the perspective of who we were and what we had. Apart, we were able to see with even greater clarity that we didn’t want to be without each other.
whole knows universe
I thought to myself that he contained a whole universe that I had yet to know.
distracted
Everything distracted me, but most of all myself.
dream fall color
What is the soul? What color is it? I suspected my soul, being mischievous, might slip away while I was dreaming and fail to return. I did my best not to fall asleep, to keep it inside of me where it belonged.
drug tools use
I use drugs to work. I never use them to escape or for pleasure. When you turn to drugs, all you're doing is turning inside, anyway. I only use drugs for construction. It's like one of my architectural tools.
our-love way contradiction
We needed time to figure out what all of this meant, how we were going to come to terms and redefine what our love was called. I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth.
intelligent people being-positive
What I really like is an intelligent review. It doesn't have to be positive. A review that has some kind of insight, and sometimes people say something that's startling or is so poignant.
rocks people wake-up
When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep.
beautiful photographer my-favorite
There are so many great 19th-century photographers, and it's really my favorite period, but the amateurs did such beautiful work.