I had a penchant myself for doing several things at once. I wanted to draw, write, speak. Patti Smith Read Quote
I was studying Francis of Assisi for quite some time, when Benedict was still the pope. And I was studying it for a song that I did for my last album, ‘Banga.’ Patti Smith Read Quote
I love playing the Fillmore. I love the walk from the hotel and climbing up those old, iron stairs that lead to the stage. I imagine Jerry Garcia, Jimi Hendrix and the Doors and all those other great bands climbing those same stairs. Patti Smith Read Quote
I like revisiting my early work, and people like to hear it. I don’t make people suffer through any experimentation or new material. When I go see an artist, I want to hear the songs that drew me to them, so I do the same. Patti Smith Read Quote
Of course, every artist has ‘minor works’ that they do, but I don’t think I have any ‘minor disciplines.’ Each discipline I approach as a major undertaking that I put my whole self into. Patti Smith Read Quote
I was actually born in Chicago, and then when I was a toddler, my parents moved to Philadelphia. Patti Smith Read Quote
My parents were very humanistic, but where we lived was not the cultural center of the world. Hardly. So I came to New York for two reasons: to find my own kin and also to get a job. And that’s what I came to New York for in ’67. Patti Smith Read Quote
I know what that tastes like, to be a rock-and-roll star – to have a limousine, to have girls screaming when they see you, girls trying to cut my hair, get a piece of me. But I don’t walk around with a concept of myself as a rock-and-roll star, and certainly not as a musician, because I really can’t play anything, except primitively. Patti Smith Read Quote
