Good Quote by John Cooper Clarke

We heard about the Smiths later, through friends. What attracted us was how they could get across the meaning of the lyric through the…

— Spencer Smith

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

— Steven Sebring

When I went to Detroit, I was very naïve, actually, and I think Patti [Smith] picked up on that quite quickly.

— Steven Sebring

Patti [ Scialfa] was an artist and a musician and she was a songwriter. And she was a lot like me in that she…

— Bruce Springsteen

People used to say poems were different to songs but I don't think they are.

— Tinie Tempah

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

— Ellie Goulding

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

— Annabelle Wallis

By the '80s, anything to do with punk was perceived as rancid. Me being known as the 'punk poet' meant my work and I…

— John Cooper Clarke

The New York Dolls did not think of themselves as punk rock. There was no such term at the time. They were just another…

— Todd Rundgren

Lyrics came quite easy early on in my career. But I always wanted to push it further and stand out a bit more. We…

— Kano

I thought poems were songs for people with bad voices.

— Lorna Dee Cervantes

I'd always tended to regard song lyrics as sort of a bastard medium because they're subjugated under the music. If you were to regard…

— David Longstreth