Patti Smith Quotes & Sayings (Page 14)

“If your label won't let you have the cover you want or sing the songs you want, then leave!”

“In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter.”

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

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

“Rock n' roll is dream soup, what's your brand?”

“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.”

“If I'm taking a picture of Brancusi's grave, I know that there's something of him, of his mortal remains, beneath my feet, and there's something beautiful about that.”

“My parents were very well read. They were both New Englanders, not highly educated, but they had a sophisticated... they were both very humanistic, and they were sophisticated readers.”

“Ornette Coleman is a real musician. He takes all of the things he's thinking about in the world - which is a whole universe upon universe - and translates this into music.”

“The moment of creative impulse is what an artist gives you. You look at a Pollock, and it can't give you the tools to do a painting like that yourself, but in doing the work, Pollock shares with you the moment of creative impulse that drove him to do that work.”