Patti Smith
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Patricia Lee Smith (born December 30, 1946) is an American singer-songwriter and poet.
Quotes[edit]
- Americans just don't know what being a movie star's all about.
- Cohen, Scott (1976-12-14). Patti Smith: Can You Hear Me Ethiopia?. Circus Magazine.
Lyrics[edit]
- Jesus died
For somebody's sins
But not mine.- Gloria: In Excelsis Deo, from Horses (1975)
- Look around you, all around you
Riding on a copper wave
Do you like the world around you?
Are you ready to behave?- Rock N Roll Nigger, from Easter (1978)
- He spared the child and spoiled the rod
I have not sold myself to God!- Babelogue, from Easter (1978)
- People have the power
To redeem the work of fools
Upon the meek the graces shower
It's decreed the people rule.- People Have the Power, from Dream of Life (1988)
- Life is filled with holes
Johnny's laying there in his sperm coffin
The angel looks down at him and says "Oh, pretty boy
Can't you show me nothing but surrender?- Land
About Patti Smith[edit]
- She is a soldier. She will not be defeated.
- Manson, Shirley (2004-04-15). The Immortals: The First Fifty. Rolling Stone Issue 946. Rolling Stone.
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Categories:
- Poets from the United States
- Memoirists from the United States
- Women authors
- Rock singers
- Human rights activists
- Activists from the United States
- Women activists
- Singer-songwriters from the United States
- Women singers
- 1946 births
- Living people
- Punk rock singers
- Guitarists from the United States
- Women guitarists
- Artists from the United States
- Blues rock
- Protopunk
- Art punk
- Women from the United States
- People from Chicago
- People from Philadelphia
- People from New Jersey
- Postmodern authors
- Women born in the 20th century