Patti Smith Quotes
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I had a penchant myself for doing several things at once. I wanted to draw, write, speak.
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'M Train' is as close to knowing what I'm like as anything. I don't know exactly what the book is about. All and nothing, I suppose.
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The issue of gender was never my biggest concern; my biggest concern was doing good work. When the feminist movement really got going, I wasn't an active part of it because I was more concerned with my own mental pursuits.
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Some of us are born rebellious. Like Jean Genet or Arthur Rimbaud, I roam these mean streets like a villain, a vagabond, an outcast, scavenging for the scraps that may perchance plummet off humanity's dirty plates, though often sometimes taking a cab to a restaurant is more convenient.
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I had a handful of records, but when I was 11 years old, I liked Puccini as much as Little Richard. They both made sense to me.
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All I've ever wanted, since I was a child, was to do something wonderful.
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It was always my belief that rock and roll belonged in the hands of the people, not rock stars.
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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.
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My siblings were a bit younger than me, and I was always entertaining them and making up stories.
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Look around you, all around youRiding on a copper waveDo you like the world around you?Are you ready to behave?
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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.
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No matter what anybody thinks about any of them, every record I've done has been done with the same amount of care, anguish, pain, suffering, and joy.
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I knew William Burroughs really well, and I was always star struck being around him. I adored him.
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I loved being a rock and roll star, but it wasn't what I wanted in life.
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My mission is to stay healthy and productive and serve as a good example.
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I'm an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar.
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If I feel any marginalisation, it's because the things that concern me aren't so important to other people.
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Maybe I'll be 48 and die in the gutter in Paris.
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Well, I'm not one of those people who needs the limelight. If I'm performing, that's what I'm doing. If I'm not, I don't long for it. I don't need the approval of an audience, or applause.
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It's taken me other places, but it was the impulse to write that led me to singing. I'm not a musician. I never thought of performing in a rock n' roll band. I was just drawn in. It was like being called to duty - I was called to duty, and I did my duty as best as I could.
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My father was a dreamy fellow - he read Plato and Socrates and watched Phillies games.
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When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep.
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Artists are traditionally resistant to labels.
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My style says, 'Look at me, don't look at me.'