I'm an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I am not really certain how original my contribution to music is as I am obviously an amateur. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“Happily there seemed to be an actual human choosing songs with abandoned disconnect.” — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasn't vibrant enough. So I merged improvised poetry with basic rock… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I wasn't thinking so much of music. I wasnt thinking so much of perfection or stardom or any of that stuff. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I just know that young people suffer, and I also know music is one of the things that help you get through… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
John Coltrane, he talks to god. He starts playing his solo, he might play for 14 minutes. For 14 minutes, it seems… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I always hesitate when people call me a musician.I have had no musical training. I can't play anything. I really think of… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I sang 'O Holy Night' with the Vatican orchestra, but also a Blake - a lullaby that William Blake wrote for the… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
When I started making music, we'd lost a lot of our great people. Rock was moving in a direction I didn't like.… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
He dreamed of amassing musicians from all over the world in Woodstock and they would sit in a field in a circle… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
New generations have unprecedented power to make great changes. Take the music business for example. The new generations have toppled the music… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I'm not really a musician. I'm a performer, and I love rock n' roll. I've embraced rock n' roll because it encompasses… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Ornette Coleman is a real musician. He takes all of the things he's thinking about in the world - which is a… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I can't judge how another person does their [music] work. Everyone has a choice and the music industry is much more open… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
When I was home, traditionally since I was young, I'd write in cafés. That was the romantic notion in 1963. Café atmospheres… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“[Jimi Hendrix] dreamed of amassing musicians from all over the world in Woodstock and they would sit in a field in a… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“We feared that the music which had given us sustenance was in danger of spiritual starvation. We feared it losing its sense… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
As an artist, I never wanted to be fettered by gender nor recognized or defined as a female poet, musician or singer.… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Music television is all about the media-oriented version of what it is to be a rock star; it's not about what Bob… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“I liked the immediacy, the transmutation of energy. I liked the task of drawing from oneself. One's ancestors. One's God. To be… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Sometimes [people] seem to think I came out of the womb, you know, cursing, with an electric guitar. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“Inside it he inscribed a few lines of poetry, portraying us as the gypsy and the fool, one creating silence; one listening closely to… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“I clawed through a thick web of the culture’s consciousness that I hadn’t known existed.” — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Ultimately, we are not seeking others to bow to, but to reinforce our individual natures, to help us suffer our own choices, to guide… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
If I'm taking a picture of Brancusi's grave, I know that there's something of him, of his mortal remains, beneath my feet, and there's… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I'm certain, as we filled down the great staircase, that I appeared the same as ever, a moping twelve years-old, all arms and legs.… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
New York is the thing that seduced me. New York is the thing that formed me. New York is the thing that deformed me.… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I don't wanna be equal with anybody. I wanna be above equal. I don't think most people are equal to me. I'd like to… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
![“I can't judge how another person does their [music] work. Everyone has a choice and the music industry is much more open that it was when I was younger. Certain things are gone, others have developed, but everyone makes their choices. Pop music has always been about the mainstream and what appeals…” quote by Patti Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/455/patti-smith-394_appeals_i-can-t-judge-how-another-person-does-th_1650149.jpg)
![“[Jimi Hendrix] dreamed of amassing musicians from all over the world in Woodstock and they would sit in a field in a circle and play and play. It didn’t matter what key or tempo or what melody, they would keep on playing through their discordance until they found a common language. Eventually they…” quote by Patti Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d50/patti-smith-394_jimi-hendrix_jimi-hendrix-dreamed-of-amassing-musicia_2552079.jpg)
![“Sometimes [people] seem to think I came out of the womb, you know, cursing, with an electric guitar.” quote by Patti Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c73/patti-smith-394_cursing_sometimes-people-seem-to-think-i-came-ou_28268.jpg)
