“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.”
Patti Smith“I wanted to cry so bad, but my tears are inside. A blindfold keeps them there. I can’t see today. Patti, I don’t know anything.”
Patti Smith, Just Kids“A real prison breakfast" I said."Yeah, but we are free."And that summed it up.”
Patti Smith“Everything comes down so pasteurizedeverything comes down 16 degreesthey say your amplifier is too loudturn your amplifier downare we high all alone on our kneesmemory is just hips that swinglike a clockthe past projects fantastic scenestic/toc tic/toc tic/tocfuck the clock!”
Patti Smith, Babel“#NAME?”
Patti Smith, M Train“Secretly I knew I had been transformed, moved by the revelation that human beings create art, that to be an artist was to see what others could not.”
Patti Smith Just Kids“I may not know what is in your mind, but I know how your mind works.”
Patti Smith, M Train“All I needed for the mind was to be led to new stations. All I needed for the heart was to visit a place of greater storms.”
Patti Smith, M Train“In my way of thinking, anything is possible. Life is at the bottom of things and belief at the top, while the creative impulse, dwelling in the center, informs all.”
Patti Smith, M Train“My dad got a job in a factory in Philadelphia, so I was raised in Germantown in a sort of a barracks for soldiers. They had housing for temporary housing. And then my parents saved money and bought a little house in South Jersey, built on a swamp.”
Patti Smith“I'm not afraid of terrorism at all. I'm afraid of loss of our freedom, loss of mobility, loss of global comradeship.”
Patti Smith