Patti Smith Quotes

I loved 'Just Kids' by Patti Smith.

— Carrie Brownstein

I've got the biggest crush on Patti Smith.

— Shaun Evans

I was pretty taken with Patti Smith, she was my heroine.

— Gavin Rossdale

I quickly realized that Patti [Smith] was somebody very special.

— Steven Sebring

I shot [Dream of Life] all on 16-millimeter, and I just wanted to learn about Patti [Smith].

— Steven Sebring

I like Patti Smith's lyrics, and sometimes think I could be influenced by them. But she has a kind of cool that's…

— Alice Oswald

Someone who's a great hero of mine and has become a friend is Patti Smith.

— Andrea Riseborough

I didn't really have a mentor, but I have always definitely been inspired by the '70s - the Stones, Patti Smith, Anita…

— Kate Moss

Fashion's been really good to me. It financed Patti Smith: Dream of Life.

— Steven Sebring

I wish I could have hung out with Patti Smith in the seventies, and also have some crazy times.

— Ellie Goulding

I moved to London to work at the National Theatre and spent my first wage packet on Patti Smith, Bowie and Velvets…

— Toyah Willcox

I took pictures of the objects and artifacts that Patti [Smith] would show to her friends because I wanted to document them.

— Steven Sebring

When I can focus on something like guitar or painting, I do. I started painting people I admire, like Kerouac, Bob Dylan,…

— Johnny Depp

Over four or five years, I did six albums with three people: John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, and Patti Smith. I felt that…

— Jimmy Iovine

Punk-rock records came out and you bought whatever you could find. But Devo didn't happen for another three years. Sex Pistols didn't…

— Michael Stipe

Lyrics became important for a while in the late Seventies. Patti Smith was a poet and a rock star, as much one…

— John Cooper Clarke

[Columbia House] magazines were how I found out about the punk world going on in New York. Because of what I read,…

— Michael Stipe

I met Patti Smith, which is not Hollywood, but that really blew my mind. I love her. We were at a very…

— Emily Ratajkowski

I do remember, the first time we met [with Patti Smith], the door opening with a squeak. And then there was this…

— Steven Sebring

I'm absolutely obsessed with The Jesus And Mary Chain and Patti Smith, but I'm a massive pop fan. I love pop culture,…

— Siobhan Fahey

I play the guitar. This year at the Sundance film festival, I joined the band from 'The Guitar' on stage. We warmed…

— Saffron Burrows

“These things were in my mind from the first moment I entered the vocal booth. The gratitude I had for rock and…

— Patti Smith

“Dylan and Leonard Cohen and Patti Smith, all dark, all romantic. When I say “romantic,” I mean a sensibility that sees everything,…

— Jeff Buckley

There's a part of me that wishes I could go out in T-shirt and jeans, 'cause I really love Patti Smith, Cat…

— Bat for Lashes

You pick up loads of baggage with your first record with reaction to it from fans and critics. So I went to…

— Ellie Goulding

“The world is burning, and yet the firelight illuminates the way out. The times are dire, even catastrophic. Nonetheless we can sense…

— Brian Klaas

“Now that he was actually introducing Eleanor to his mom, he couldn’t help but see her the way his mom was going…

— Rainbow Rowell

I love to sing old Motown songs to myself, or some Patti Smith Edith Piaf or Billie Holiday. That gets me in…

— Siobhan Fahey

I'm interested in Patti Smith and women who were iconic in a very hedonistic way.

— Annabelle Wallis

I love PJ Harvey, Patti Smith, Pixies, Portishead, and Massive Attack: a lot of what I would describe as alternative and indie…

— Shura

The first time I met Patti Smith was in a laundromat. We knew some of the same people, including Richard Hell.

— Tom Verlaine

I became Patti's [Smith] messenger, basically, and the film is my view of how I learned about Patti.

— Steven Sebring

I'm partial to slouchier, more free clothing. My icon is Patti Smith, so the more rips, the more punk, the more comfortable…

— Troian Bellisario

Hopefully I can inspire lots of people to learn about [Patti Smith], to read poetry or learn about William Blake or Arthur…

— Steven Sebring

I just wanted to be Patti's [Smith] messenger and get her word out there.

— Steven Sebring

I was making a film [Dream of Life] about Patti [Smith], but I was taking pictures, too.

— Steven Sebring

We just grew to trust each other [with Patti Smith] more and more over the years. Most of the time I didn't…

— Steven Sebring

There were a lot of people doing new and interesting things with rock. But I wanted to take it farther than that.…

— Glenn Branca

I felt like an outsider, so listening to a bunch of outsiders' music like Bjork and Patti Smith made me feel better.…

— Perfume Genius

Look at Kate Bush, Patti Smith, Yoko Ono - three really private people, but when they're on stage or when they're singing,…

— Viv Albertine