3 December 2020 Patti Smith I’m not saying I wasn’t flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business.
3 December 2020 Patti Smith Good news doesn’t necessarily have to be a positive thing. Bringing good news is imparting hope to one’s fellow man.
3 December 2020 Patti Smith No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist.
3 December 2020 Patti Smith I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasn’t vibrant enough. So I merged improvised poetry with basic rock chords.
3 December 2020 Patti Smith I’ve always looked the same. Since I was a child, I hated having to deal with my hair. I hated having to change my clothes. As a kid, I had a sailor shirt and the same old corduroy pants, and that’s what I wanted to wear everyday.
3 December 2020 Patti Smith To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It’s freedom.
3 December 2020 Patti Smith The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication.
3 December 2020 Patti Smith What I really like is an intelligent review. It doesn’t have to be positive. A review that has some kind of insight, and sometimes people say something that’s startling or is so poignant.
3 December 2020 Patti Smith Then I read Little Women, and of course, like a lot of really young girls, I was very taken with Jo – Jo being the writer and the misfit.
3 December 2020 Patti Smith The idea of redemption is always good news, even if it means sacrifice or some difficult times.
3 December 2020 Patti Smith 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.
3 December 2020 Patti Smith What I wanted to do in rock ‘n roll was merge poetry with sonic scapes, and the two people who had contributed so much to that were Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison.
3 December 2020 Patti Smith In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.
3 December 2020 Patti Smith My mom loved rock ‘n roll. My father hated it. We couldn’t play it when he was around.
