Patti Smith ✓

(1946) musician United States

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[Wikidata] American singer, songwriter, author and poet (born 1946)... | [Wikipedia] Patricia Lee Smith is an American singer, songwriter, poet, and author. Her 1975 debut album Horses made her an influential member of the New York City–based punk rock movement. Smith has fused rock and poetry in her work. In 1978, her most widely known song, "Because the Night," co-written with Bru

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• I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written 'Just Kids' had I not spent all of the 80s developing my craft as… 80s
• I'm a worker. I do the work to communicate, and I want people to embrace it, and when they do I'm happy. Communicate
• I'm an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar. Chords
• I'm not afraid of terrorism at all. I'm afraid of loss of our freedom, loss of mobility, loss of global comradeship. Afraid
• I'm not really a nostalgic person. Inspirational
• I've always thrived on the encouragement of others. Always Thrived
• I've lost lots of men in my life, besides my mother, which is a whole different loss. Besides
• I've written a lot of prose. I just haven't published it. Funny
• If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer. Any
• If your label won't let you have the cover you want or sing the songs you want, then leave! Cover
• In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter. Calling
• It was no hardship to me to spend long hours reading and writing. Hardship
• My father was a dreamy fellow - he read Plato and Socrates and watched Phillies games. Dreamy
• My mother had no end of tragedy in her life. She would make herself get up and take a deep breath and go out and… Breath
• No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist. Artist
• People called me the godmother of punk, but I never name myself anything. Called
• People have the power to redeem the work of fools. Fool
• Polaroid by its nature makes you frugal. You walk around with maybe two packs of film in your pocket. You have 20 shots, so each… Each
• Rock n' roll is dream soup, what's your brand? Brand
• Sure I destroyed my guitar at every concert, but it was okay, because I'd always get a shiny new one the very next day. Always Get
• The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication. Artist
• The thing I've always liked about performing is that I decide what I want to wear, whether I want to comb my hair. Always Liked
• Then I read Little Women, and of course, like a lot of really young girls, I was very taken with Jo - Jo being the… Course
• There are so many great 19th-century photographers, and it's really my favorite period, but the amateurs did such beautiful work. Amateur
• What a model of an artist was for me was an artist who worked. Picasso was the ultimate model, because the work ethic he had. Artist

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