Patti Smith Quotes

Mohammed personally mapped out seven heavens. If he got to seven, you know there's more.
Patti Smith

Seven, Heavens, Mohammed

My mom loved rock 'n roll. My father hated it. We couldn't play it when he was around.
Patti Smith

Mom, Rock, Father

No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist.
Patti Smith

Work, Freedom, Fact

People called me the godmother of punk, but I never name myself anything.
Patti Smith

Punk, Name, Godmother

People have the power to redeem the work of fools.
Patti Smith

Work, Power, Fools

Rock n' roll is dream soup, what's your brand?
Patti Smith

Rock, Dream, Soup

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.
Patti Smith

Guitar, Sure, Next

The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication.
Patti Smith

Through, Artists, Coming

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.
Patti Smith

Women, Young, Read

We tried not to age, but time had its rage.
Patti Smith

Age, Time, Tried

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.
Patti Smith

Poetry, Rock, Thought

The issue of gender was never my biggest concern; my biggest concern was doing good work. When the feminist movement really got going, I wasn't an active part of it because I was more concerned with my own mental pursuits.
Patti Smith

Work, Good, Concerned

As an artist, I used to think that my responsibility was to do good work. But I had to learn from the '70s on that being a public figure presents another aspect of responsibility.
Patti Smith

Work, Good, Another

From very early on in my childhood - four, five years old - I felt alien to the human race. I felt very comfortable with thinking I was from another planet, because I felt disconnected - I was very tall and skinny, and I didn't look like anybody else, I didn't even look like any member of my family.
Patti Smith

Family, Human, Thinking

I don't think the Palestinian people or Afghan children or some other things I'm concerned about are at the top of other people's agendas - not right now, when America is going through such a recession and people are suffering across the board financially. But I think all that will change.
Patti Smith

Change, Children, Through

I had to learn, really, how to rein in my energies and discipline myself. And I found it very very useful. I rebelled against it at first, but it's a good thing to have.
Patti Smith

Good, Learn, Against

I have a daughter who's 11 years old. Maybe she'll grow up independent and really really heavy and become a movie star and she'll play me in my life story.
Patti Smith

Life, Play, Old

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.
Patti Smith

Change, Same, Old

My father's mother was from Liverpool and she had this very beautiful English china. I only wanted to drink my cocoa out of my grandmother's cup and saucer.
Patti Smith

Beautiful, Mother, Father

Somehow I started introducing writing into my drawings, and after a time, the language took over and I started getting very involved with the handwriting and then the look of the handwriting.
Patti Smith

Time, Writing, After

Usually when I go to a place for the first time, unless there's something historical or spectacular that nature has to offer, the first thing I like to do is see what's on the minds of the people.
Patti Smith

Nature, Time, Place

What I say should always be prefaced with this: I'm not really politically articulate. I just try to be like Thomas Paine: what is common sense? So when I say these things to you, I am speaking from a humanist point of view. I just look around and see what's wrong.
Patti Smith

Try, Wrong, Around

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

Poetry, Rock, Two

When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four or five books. I haven't published them. I just haven't gotten around to it for several reasons.
Patti Smith

Children, Around, Married

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Nationality: American

Born: December 20, 1946

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