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
loss mobility terrorism
I'm not afraid of terrorism at all. I'm afraid of loss of our freedom, loss of mobility, loss of global comradeship.
needs drink cosmology
We need a new cosmology. New gods. New sacraments. Another drink.
artist giving creative
The moment of creative impulse is what an artist gives you. You look at a Pollock, and it can't give you the tools to do a painting like that yourself, but in doing the work, Pollock shares with you the moment of creative impulse that drove him to do that work.
sides loyal lovers
We wanted, it seemed, what we already had, a lover and a friend to create with, side by side. To be loyal, yet be free.
children nice night
I was quite an insomniac. I rarely slept as a child. Having God to talk to at night was nice.
movie stars actors
Americans just don't know what being a movie star's all about.
drinking writing drug
I wasn't taking drugs or drinking. I was working and working and working. But I wasn't writing anything.
hard-times stranger young
I wasn't a stranger to hard times. I used to read the Bible - well, I still do, but when I was young I read the Bible quite a bit.
happens
What will happen to us?" I asked. "There will always be us," he answered.
take-control loses
Got to lose control before you take control.
fashion artist cities
The way our big cities change sucks. The beauty of cities was that they were edgy, sometimes even a little dangerous. Artists, poets, and activists could come and unify and create different kinds of scenes. Not just fashion scenes, scenes that were politically active. Big cities are getting so high-end oriented, business corporate fashion, fashion not in an artistic sense but in a corporate sense. For me that edgy beauty of cities is lost, wherever you go.
doors possibility plans
If you over-plan, you close the door on possibilities.
simple thinking media
I always hope that young people will think for themselves and also most importantly, understand that they should judge themselves on their own merit, their good deeds, however simple, to not judge themselves by what they have materially, by what other people think of them, through social media.
children red-lipstick want
Even as a child, I knew what I didn't want. I didn't want to wear red lipstick.