Kasutaja:Ehitaja/Patti Smith

Patricia Lee Smith (sündinud 30. detsembril 1946 Chicagos, USAs) on USA laulja, helilooja, luuletaja ja kunstnik.

Intervjuud

I really love my kids, I like having them around me. They can drive you nuts and they’re such a responsibility but it’s like a movie you can never see again.
Some of the stuff pawned off as freedom of expression, let alone art, is just trash, just jerking off, with no real duty attached. No seeking to elevate. No self-censorship. No conscience. Things seem too open to me now, children are being robbed of their childhood. I don’t know. Somehow I feel like Rip van Winkle who fell asleep in the ’70s and woke up in the ’90s. When I was a child we were much more cut off from the adult world.
My mother was a counter waitress in a drugstore where they had a bargain bin of used records. One day she brought this record home and said, “I never heard of the fellow but he looks like somebody you’d like,” and it was Another Side of Bob Dylan. I loved him. You see, I had devoted so much of my girlish daydreams to Rimbaud. Rimbaud was like my boyfriend. If you’re 15 or 16 and you can’t get the boy you want, and you have to daydream about him all the time, what’s the difference if he’s a dead poet or a senior? At least Bob Dylan … it was a relief to daydream about somebody who was alive.
Kids who were too young for the beat thing and too old for the Beatles got into jazz.
I saw this really old Martin in a pawn shop, it had a woven, colored strap and I loved it. I saved my money, but when I went back to get it it was gone. So I bought a little Martin. I didn’t know anything about tuning. I could never understand why my chords never sounded like the songs in my Bob Dylan song book. And then I met Sam Shepard and he showed me. He bought me this ‘30s black Gibson, which I still have. It’s the same kind of guitar Robert Johnson plays.
I remember once, when we were in Austin, staying in the Lyndon Baines Johnson suite, and this interviewer asked me, “What is the future of rock?” And I said, “Sculpture.” Then he asked me about the future of art, and Richard’s lying there beached, eating cheesecake, and says, “The computer. It will take over everything.”
The first time I ever heard him was way back in 1964. I went to see Joan Baez. She had this fellow with her. Bobby Dylan. His voice was like a motorcycle through a cornfield …
Pop music used to be derogatory, but, especially since Pop Art, the word has been redefined. Pop is something, at its best, both pleasurable and inspiring.
[Dalai-laamast:] Yes, I have always cared for him since I was a kid in 1959 when the Chinese invaded Tibet and he disappeared. I prayed for him constantly. In September I was asked to work with him at The World Peace Conference in Berlin. Everytime I saw him all I could do was smile. At dinner I sat across from him but I couldn’t say anything, I just waved and smiled. I felt so … young. So happy. For my young girl self so deeply loved him.
A lot of my friends from New York are gone. My main friend in New York was Robert (Mapplethorpe). He was my best friend. And I really loved Richard Sohl. Whenever I came to New York after I moved to Detroit I’d always get excited as I’d see the skyline because I knew somewhere in that city they were working or cruising or whatever. I like coming back to New York. I love walking around, I’ll pass cafés and people will say, “Hi Patti,” just like when you’ve grown up in the neighborhood.
[Budismi avastamisest 11-12-aastaselt:] I was leaving the Jehovah Witnesses so I was studying other religions. My frame of mind was that if you left a religion you had to find another one. I realized after time that that wasn’t necessary. I fell in love with Tibet because their essential mission was to keep a continual stream of prayer. To me they kept the world from spinning out of control just by being a civilization on the roof of the world in that continuous state of prayer. The prayers are etched on wheels, they feel them with their hands like braille and turn them. It’s spinning prayer like cloth. That was my perception as a young person. I didn’t quite understand the whole thing but I felt protected. We grew up at a time when nuclear war seemed imminent with air raid drills and lying on the floor under your school desk. To counterbalance that destruction was this civilization of monks living high in the Himalayas who were continuously praying for us, for the planet and for all of nature. That made me feel safe.
Do you have this thing where you start thinking something and your mind takes it over and it’s not in a language that you can translate yet so you’re sitting and waiting but your mind’s like … it’s like in those movies where the computer starts talking to itself and locks the guy out. Sometimes I sit here and I feel like a shell harboring my brain and my brain is faxing different thoughts to other parts.
- Moore, Thurston, "Patti Smith", BOMB Magazine Winter, 1996. Retrieved July 18, 2012.

https://bombmagazine.org/articles/patti-smith/

Tema kohta

[Patti Smithi 2010. aasta memuaari "Just Kids" kohta:] I want to live like Patti. I want to write like Patti. The book was so honest and brave. I loved the way she sees the world. I really felt that life was more beautiful after I read it, and I felt more hopeful.
- Emma Watson, intervjuu: Amanda Foreman, "Emma Watson's New Day", Vogue, 12. juuni 2011