Patti Smith
Related PATTI SMITH I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship... ADRIAN MITCHELL I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred ... J. CARTER BROWN ALLEN GINSBERG CARRIE FISHER I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship... ADRIAN MITCHELL My father would tell me if I wasn't writing in meter verse, it wasn't poetry. JOHN DARNIELLE KAT GRAHAM Poetry itself is music. I'm just lucky that I can convert it into music. William Blake is my fav... BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn&#... BRUCE COCKBURN KATE THOMPSON ALLEN GINSBERG When I began, poetry was very academic. You published little pamphlets from fancy presses. It was ra... JOHN FULLER Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I d... JACK PRELUTSKY I was heavily influenced by big voices when I was younger. People like Whitney Houston, Aretha Frank... ANDRA DAY It wasn't a mission to be a rock star. It wasn't a mission of mine to even be a movie star. ... DON JOHNSON I came from being a singer going into jazz. And that's one of the things that polio did for me i... CHARLIE HADEN ALICE WALKER EILEEN MYLES SAUL WILLIAMS I worked at first in a music store, and soon enough found myself hanging out with people like Patti ... PHIL HARTMAN JAMES FENTON FRANK MCCOURT My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books w... TAO LIN I love all kinds of music. My dad's from London, so he loves David Bowie, the Stones, The Clash.... ADAM HICKS Touring with King Crimson wasn't a lot of fun for me. I had a lot of equipment, and when I was i... JAMIE MUIR MICHELLE PAVER I've written poetry since I was a kid. As the years went on, I got into writing stories and scre... BLAKE JENNER NATASHA TRETHEWEY I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated bec... RANDY HARRISON When I first came out, country wouldn't touch me because I was way too rock, and rock wouldn'... CARLENE CARTER I don't sing now, because I had polio when I was 15, bulbar polio. This was when the epidemic wa... CHARLIE HADEN ELLEN BASS I'm as much influenced by Joseph Smith and the Mormons as I am, more so, than by Eliot. Actually... MARGUERITE YOUNG BILLY COLLINS MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I am what I am. Before I was not so proud to make fashion. My family thought fashion wasn't very... SONIA RYKIEL WALTER BECKER When I came into the gym, I wasn't just some guy. I was a two-time Olympian. DANIEL CORMIER I was a kid living in New Jersey, who - I'd wanted to make movies since I was a little kid, so t... DAMIEN CHAZELLE In the years since I worked with John Hughes, there were many years where I literally had hundred of... ANTHONY MICHAEL HALL PATTI SMITH I met Patti LuPone and Elaine Paige in a party. I didn't speak too much with Patti, but she was ... ELENA ROGER Comedy was something I picked up trying to perfect my art through spoken word. I got on YouTube just... SPOKEN REASONS CAROLINE KENNEDY When I lost my record deal, and my phone wasn't ringing, I realized that I had to reassess who V... VESTA WILLIAMS MIKE BIRBIGLIA WASHED OUT I don't like political poetry, and I don't write it. If this question was pointing towards t... DIANE WAKOSKI That is what I did with Jack, and that's why he liked to do the readings with me because he knew... DAVID AMRAM BILLY COLLINS PAUL AUSTER I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought... BRUCE COCKBURN MARK HADDON I knew I wasn't a baseball writer. I was scared to death. I really was afraid to talk to players... ROGER ANGELL I read a little bit of nonfiction and a lot of poetry. I think of poetry as my shot of whiskey when ... ALICE MCDERMOTT When I finished my term, I thought about running for governor then but decided not to because, frank... BEN CHANDLER My poetry, I think, has become the way of my giving out what music is within me. COUNTEE CULLEN GEORGE HARRISON Growing up, I think I always had a sense of art: a sense that there was poetry in the world. I didn&... LANCE HENRIKSEN All the music I listened to in high school that I loved and that moved me wasn't the same music ... MIKE D JACK BLACK BILLY COLLINS GREG LAKE EMINEM CARL SANDBURG I realized that I had screwed up my life living different parts of my life in different places. I wa... JAMES MCGREEVEY I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986. TASLIMA NASRIN The poetry I grew up on is really an intense form of poetry; it's so pure and powerful. K'NAAN What I would say is I've only had one injury in my NBA career that was probably was because my c... ANDREW BOGUT I don't think Auden liked my poetry very much, he's very Anglican. STEVIE SMITH I was looking to become more proactive with my career because I wasn't crazy with some of the sc... RAY LIOTTA I sort of wrongfully judged 'Mamma Mia!' for so long. I thought of it as a jukebox musical t... AARON LAZAR I started writing poetry in high school because I wanted desperately to write, but somehow, writing ... L. E. MODESITT, JR. STOCKARD CHANNING DON MCLEAN I think rap music is rap music. I mean, are there heavy writing aspects of it? Absolutely. In a sens... EARL SWEATSHIRT Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is... ADRIAN MITCHELL I thought I was going to be killed. The casualties were so heavy, it was just a given. I learned to ... ELLIOT RICHARDSON PRINCE MAYA ANGELOU CLIVE DAVIS ROBIN S. SHARMA MATHIAS RUST I did literature at university, so I had a real relationship with poetry, but they don't make ma... ALICE EVE Music, in Mexico, just wasn't working out. So, I fell into acting and I just fell in love with i... ADAN CANTO I wasn't prepared for the environment I encountered trying to break into television news. In the... GRETCHEN CARLSON CHRIS CORNELL FAMKE JANSSEN TOM WAITS In the mid-1980s to the early 1990s I was writing songs not because I particularly liked what I was ... GARY NUMAN I was never much into knights and sorcery and that kind of thing. It's not because I was into an... PAUL RUDD KATHERINE JENKINS FELIX DENNIS Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody. JOSHUA LOGAN MARK STRAND AMY SEDARIS 'The Voice' was the first real job I've ever had that wasn't just messing around wit... ADAM LEVINE CHUCK BERRY E. M. FORSTER
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PATTI SMITH JUST KIDS To get rid of depression, I swim with dolphins. PATTI STANGER PATTI DAVIS The best part about being a matchmaker is you are getting credits in heaven, as I really believe I w... PATTI STANGER I was a shy kid with a broom handle that I pretended was a microphone. PATTI LABELLE I'm a planner, and most networks don't plan. Bravo doesn't plan. Bravo is lucky in a lot... PATTI STANGER I can't do some of the songs that younger girls like Mary J. Blige and Beyonce are doing. They h... PATTI LABELLE PATTI JOHNSON It's not easy to date when you're hefty. Besides I like feeling thin because it makes me fee... PATTI STANGER PATTI DAVIS PATTI DAVIS PATTI DAVIS PATTI DAVIS PATTI DAVIS So if diva means giving your best, then yes, I guess I am a diva. PATTI LABELLE PATTI DAVIS Firstly, though we have to clean this blood up off the tiles before it dries. It is far easier to cl... PATTI ROBERTS PATTI DAVIS PATTI DAVIS So if anybody wants to get me something, get me 60 crabs - one for each year. I don't want no di... PATTI LABELLE I dated a guy and he liked me but I didn't like him. I went through his wardrobe and cleaned out... PATTI STANGER PATTI DAVIS For the women in California, they're just downtrodden because they're so gorgeous here. Ever... PATTI STANGER Women are strong now. Women are dominating the charts, and women are doing it for themselves. We'... PATTI LABELLE I think that one of Elvis' charms was that he could sing almost any kind of music. I am sure tha... PATTI PAGE PATTI DAVIS I always believe a woman should have 5 non-negotiables that she should stick to when attracting a ma... PATTI STANGER If I was in a situation where it wasn't working and I had a choice with another man, I'm gon... PATTI STANGER PATTI DAVIS PATTI DAVIS When I was younger, I'd go to the Museum of Television and Radio in New York and watch this beau... 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The world is holy! The soul is holy! The skin is holy!
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I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life. 
Some people think that English poetry begins with the Anglo-Saxons. I don't, because I can't... 
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My thirties merged into my forties, and I sort of gradually realised that I don't really want ch... 
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When I became poet laureate, I was in a slightly uncomfortable position because I think a lot of poe... 
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Rock music is being systematically merged with fashion. 
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I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I... 
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I wasn't Lennon, or I wasn't McCartney. I was me. And the only reason I started to write son... 
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I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever. 
I've written some poetry I don't understand myself. 
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The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch. 
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I think I'm constantly in a state of adjustment. 
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