Patti Smith Quotes
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I am not really certain how original my contribution to music is as I am obviously an amateur.
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Nothing is a hobby - each discipline is its own world with its own high standards. Of course, every artist has 'minor works' that they do, but I don't think I have any 'minor disciplines.'
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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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As a citizen, hopefully I'm humanist. As an artist, I'm free.
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A lot of children don't have a developed aesthetic. I did. I made early choices in life, even about cloth; I liked flannel and not polyester.
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I'm a worker. I do the work to communicate, and I want people to embrace it, and when they do I'm happy.
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I don't stay in one discipline because it's more lucrative than another. In fact, the most successful thing I ever did was 'Just Kids,' for which I had absolutely no expectations.
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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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Music television is all about the media-oriented version of what it is to be a rock star; it's not about what Bob Dylan or Jimi Hendrix were about - which included great images, sure, but they had spiritual and political and revolutionary content, too.
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C'mon, I mean who didn't listen to 'The Who' in the 60s?
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For Christmas every year, my mother used to give me those cheap little diaries that would tell your horoscope and provide a little blank slot for each day.
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Nothing will stifle your human evolution more than fame and fortune.
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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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I was so unhealthy as a child, and at least three or four times my parents were told to get ready, that I would not make it.
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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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My style says, 'Look at me, don't look at me.'
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I've always believed in having a sense of balance and stealth.
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I know what that tastes like, to be a rock-and-roll star - to have a limousine, to have girls screaming when they see you, girls trying to cut my hair, get a piece of me. But I don't walk around with a concept of myself as a rock-and-roll star, and certainly not as a musician, because I really can't play anything, except primitively.
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We never threw a record together. Each record was done really seriously, as if our life depended on it.
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Life is filled with holesJohnny's laying there in his sperm coffinThe angel looks down at him and says 'Oh, pretty boyCan't you show me nothing but surrender?
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Americans just don't know what being a movie star's all about.
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I haven't had the most thrilling lifestyle. I was a pretty good dresser, but I would have a pretty boring 'Behind the Music.'
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My father was a dreamy fellow - he read Plato and Socrates and watched Phillies games.
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The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication.