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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love
When I was a young girl, I'd love giving book reports.
belonged rock roll
It was always my belief that rock and roll belonged in the hands of the people, not rock stars.
classical duke hated liked loved mom music rock
My mom loved rock n' roll. My father hated it. We couldn't play it when he was around. He liked classical music and Duke Ellington.
younger
My siblings were a bit younger than me, and I was always entertaining them and making up stories.
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.
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.
mohammed personally
Mohammed personally mapped out seven heavens. If he got to seven, you know there's more.
boring good music thrilling
I haven't had the most thrilling lifestyle. I was a pretty good dresser, but I would have a pretty boring 'Behind the Music.'
drew early hear people songs suffer work
I like revisiting my early work, and people like to hear it. I don't make people suffer through any experimentation or new material. When I go see an artist, I want to hear the songs that drew me to them, so I do the same.
barracks bought built dad factory house housing job money raised saved sort south temporary
My dad got a job in a factory in Philadelphia, so I was raised in Germantown in a sort of a barracks for soldiers. They had housing for temporary housing. And then my parents saved money and bought a little house in South Jersey, built on a swamp.
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.
scientists visionary
Artists, musicians, scientists - if you have any kind of visionary aptitude, it's often something that you don't have a choice in. You have to do it.
neat
I just think it will be a neat time.