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
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We want to send an Amazon securities employee out to his home to collect whatever materials he has. This is an important issue for us.
feed
I get up, and if I feel out of sorts, I'll do some exercises, I'll feed my cat, then I go get my coffee, take a notebook, and write for a couple of hours.
constantly either imagination people terms
I get irritated with the world. I get irritated with politicians. I get very irritated with governments and with corporations, but in terms of imagination - my imagination is always fertile. I'm either thinking of my own things or constantly engaged by the things that other people do.
absolutely heard remember
I absolutely remember where I was when I first heard it. It got me through adolescence.
call counsel love music people perform skills though
I'm always writing. And, I mean, I always counsel people when they call me a musician: I really do not have the skills of a musician. I really don't think like a musician, though I love music and I perform and sing.
life roll
I loved being a rock and roll star, but it wasn't what I wanted in life.
work
I have a lot of energy, and I like to work.
glenn listening morning work
I work to Glenn Gould in the morning and go to sleep listening to Parsifal.
concerns pop
I have bigger concerns than what pop stars are doing. I'm more concerned about our environment, what industrialists are doing to it.
jim love loved poetry work
I didn't love Jim Morrison 'cause he was self-destructive. I loved him because of his work. Because of the way he merged poetry and rock-and-roll. Because he did something new.
expect hopefully meeting word
I don't expect a big crowd. But hopefully if this first meeting is interesting the word will spread.
believe people playing roll
I don't believe people playing rock n' roll should have crowns. We're not kings and queens. Anybody can play it.
believe cover djs job label lose music sing songs
I don't believe any artist who says, 'I had to do that because DJs will tell me I can't play that music. I will lose my job.' Well, lose the job and create a new job. If your label won't let you have the cover you want or sing the songs you want, then leave!
became girls member took
He just became a member of the family. My girls just took to him, and he took to them.