I like photographing dresses in windows. I actually wore a lot of dresses in the '70s. I like them on other people now. Patti Smith More Quotes by Patti Smith More Quotes From Patti Smith In 1974, when I started working with the material that became Horses, a lot of our great voices had died. We'd lost Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin, and people like Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. Patti Smith horse voice kings Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star. Patti Smith movie stars artist I watch a lot of crime shows. The head investigator always said to the crime solver, "What do you say?" And inevitably the other has to say something like, "Well I'm thinking he was shot in the neck with a certain gun and he seemed to be running." The solver has to picture what he's seeing first, and then express his own observations. The writer does the same. Patti Smith gun running thinking I loved books; I read my childhood away. I was more interested in my interior world. Patti Smith childhood book world When I was home, traditionally since I was young, I'd write in cafés. That was the romantic notion in 1963. Café atmospheres back then were different. The café life really stemmed from the Parisians' idea of it, with poets struggling over their poems and drinking coffee. No music, no sounds, maybe a little jazz, or soul, but mostly nothing. Now you go into a café and the music is really loud, people are having business meetings, they are on their cellphones. It changes from generation to generation. Patti Smith coffee struggle drinking Sometimes you have to abandon your own children for other children. Patti Smith abandon sometimes children I don't think the area of Jerusalem should be part of a Jewish state; it belongs to all people, to Christians and Muslims and the Jewish people. Patti Smith christian people thinking One thing I did have under my belt was, my mother lost her mother when she was 11. She mourned her mother her whole life and made my grandmother seem present even though I never met her. I couldn't imagine how my mom could go on but she did, she took care of us, she worked two jobs and had four children. She was such a good example of how to conduct oneself in a time of grief. When I lost my husband, I tried to model myself as much as I could on her. Patti Smith mom mother jobs No one knows how powerful technology is. Patti Smith know-how technology powerful My mother answers all my fan mail. Patti Smith fans mother answers When you do controversial work, you're going to upset a certain amount of people. Patti Smith upset controversial people I love to photograph the tools of one's trade: Duncan Grant's paintbrushes, the typewriter of Herman Hesse, or even my own guitar, a 1957 Fender Duo-Sonic. Patti Smith guitar typewriters tools I don't feel that censorship keeps me from doing the work, though. I'm my bigger censor. Patti Smith censorship bigger feels I don't think anything can prepare you for one's losses. Patti Smith loss thinking In the '50s you had to wear pink ribbons if you were a girl, and you were supposed to become a hairdresser or a secretary. I couldn't stomach it. Later on, when I fell in love with my husband and had children, that's when my mother's earthiness or sense of femaleness kicked in. Patti Smith girl mother children Horses pretty much broke as a record in England. Patti Smith horse england beauty America is run by corporations, it is run by banks and Wall Street. That's why we can't get guns under control. It's because all these lobbyists don't want gun control, they don't want us to have strong environmental safety guards. Young people can become aware of that and they are the most powerful lobby. With a click of a text, you can have millions of people voting for one person. Patti Smith wall strong running I always wanted to be an artist, writer and poet since I was seven, and one has to live long enough to evolve as an artist and do one's finest work. Patti Smith poet artist long I am not really certain how original my contribution to music is as I am obviously an amateur. Patti Smith contribution music-is certain Look at Obama - he is now [2015] trying to help us environmentally but he should have done it eight years ago. He's trying to salvage his legacy and trying to do something good but we needed for him to show leadership from day one. Patti Smith eight should-have years
