I always hesitate when people call me a musician.I have had no musical training. I can't play anything. I really think of myself as a performer. It's always been writing for me. I evolved with my band in rock 'n' roll through poetry, not through music.
I always wear the same thing onstage. - Patti Smith
I always wear the same thing onstage.
- Patti Smith
I've always considered myself a writer. - Patti Smith
I've always considered myself a writer.
We go through life. We shed our skins. We become ourselves. - Patti Smith
We go through life. We shed our skins. We become ourselves.
Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words. - Patti Smith
Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words.
You can't make a mistake when you improvise. - Patti Smith
You can't make a mistake when you improvise.
Put down your cell phones, put everything away, and feel your blood pulsing in you, feel your creative impulse, feel your own spirit, your heart, you… - Patti Smith
Put down your cell phones, put everything away, and feel your blood pulsing in you, feel your creative impulse, feel your own spirit, your heart, you…
The film [Dream of Life] doesn't hide anything, except maybe moments of sorrow or darkness that belonged to me. - Patti Smith
The film [Dream of Life] doesn't hide anything, except maybe moments of sorrow or darkness that belonged to me.
Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional. - Patti Smith
Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional.
If you don't have what you need, just rock with what you've got! - Patti Smith
If you don't have what you need, just rock with what you've got!
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