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
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.
singers longevity wanted
I never really wanted to be a singer - not with any longevity. But I always wanted to be a writer.
flames feelings alive
If we keep our little flame alive, our first feeling of enthusiasm of who we are, without the influence or intervention of others, we will prevail.
artist wounds
An artist wears his work in place of wounds.
communication responsibility artist
The artist seeks contact with his intuitive sense of the gods, but in order to create his work, he cannot stay in this seductive and incorporeal realm. He must return to the material world in order to do his work. It's the artist's responsibility to balance mystical communication and the labor of creation.
successful rocks be-who-you-are
To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's freedom.
writing thinking rocks
I always hesitate when people call me a musician.I have had no musical training. I can't play anything. I really think of myself as a performer. It's always been writing for me. I evolved with my band in rock 'n' roll through poetry, not through music.
jesus records firsts
I don't know why, the very first word on my very first record is 'Jesus.' I still invoke him as an entity to reckon with.
beautiful book world
I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book.
jumping way homeless
Obviously, I'm not homeless. I'm not an old alcoholic. I'm not jumping trains. I just like to live in a certain way.
encouragement
I've always thrived on the encouragement of others.
prayer war humility
In the war of magic and religion, is magic ultimately the victor? Perhaps priest and magician were once one, but the priest, learning humility in the face of God, discarded the spell for prayer.
sex gender drag
As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag.