Quote by Patti Smith
I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry was

I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasnt vibrant enough. So I merged improvised poetry with basic rock chords. – Patti Smith

Other quotes by Patti Smith

I dont think the Palestinian people or Afghan children or some other things Im concerned about are at the top of other peoples 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

Category:
Change
Read Quote

Good news doesnt necessarily have to be a positive thing. Bringing good news is imparting hope to ones fellow man. – Patti Smith

Category:
Hope
Read Quote

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 didnt look like anybody else, I didnt even look like any member of my family. – Patti Smith

Category:
Family
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Poetry
category

My mother carried on and supported us her ambition had been to write poetry and songs. – Philip Levine

Category:
Poetry

The poet needs to admire; he is in a merely human sense the high priest of the true, the beautiful, the grand. On whatever side he spreads his wings it is his mission to bear the universal homage to these worthy objects, or to some ideas of them. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

Category:
Poetry

Why should poetry have to make sense? – Charlie Chaplin

Category:
Poetry

As a poet there is only one political duty, and that is to defend ones language against corruption. When it is corrupted, people lose faith in what they hear and this leads to violence. – W. H. Auden

Category:
Poetry

Random Quotes

All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, Id be standing on the breadline right in back of J. Edgar Hoover. – Lenny Bruce

Category:
Humor

I do 280 episodes of TV a year, write 15 recipes for the magazine, and publish an annual book. With all of that, we try to get one weekend a month with Isaboo at our home in the Adirondacks to relax and recharge. – Rachael Ray

Category:
Home

Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while. – Jack Welch

Category:
Business

Why kill time when one can employ it. – Proverb

Category:
Time