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
want right-now
I'm here right now and I want now to be the greatest time.
writing aspect small-parts
I didn't write about aspects of my public life because that's a small part of my life.
children smart school
I wasn't attractive, I wasn't very verbal, I wasn't very smart in school. I wasn't anything that showed the world I was something special, but I had this tremendous hope all the time. I had this tremendous spirit that kept me going... I was a happy child, because I had this feeling that I was going to go beyond my body physical... I just knew it.
skins shed
We go through life. We shed our skins. We become ourselves.
expected
No one expected me. Everything awaited me.
children believe sea
For life is the best thing we have in this existence. And if we should desire to believe in something, it should be a beacon within. This beacon being the sun, sea, and sky, our children, our work, our companions and, most simply put, the embodiment of love.
rocks four rock-n-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.
mistake simple feet
When we got to the part where we had to improvise an argument in a poetic language, I got cold feet. "I can't do this," I said. "I don't know what to say." "Say anything," he said. "You can't make a mistake when you improvise." "What if I mess it up? What if I screw up the rhythm?" "You can't," he said. "It's like drumming. If you miss a beat, you create another." In this simple exchange, Sam taught me the secret of improvisation, one that I have accessed my whole life.
dream art reality
In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.
pie world
You can't carve up the world. It's not a pie.
adventure fate design
Life is an adventure of our own design intersected by fate and a series of lucky and unlucky accidents.
teenager my-boyfriend bob
When I was a teenager, I had trouble getting a boyfriend, so I imagined Arthur Rimbaud or Bob Dylan as my boyfriend.
loneliness space understood
I understood that in this small space of time we had mutually surrendered our loneliness and replaced it with trust.
christian thinking years
I think really that's just the basic Christian lesson that sometimes takes us years and years to understand - have equal concern for another human being as you have for yourself or perhaps even more concern for another human being than you have for yourself.