Patti Smith

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born

December 30, 1946 in Chicago, Illinois, The United States

gender

female

website

http://www.pattismith.net/

genre

Poetry

influences

Allen Ginsberg, Arthur Rimbaud

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Patti Smith (born Patricia Lee Smith on December 30, 1946) is an American singer-songwriter and poet. She was influential in the birth of the punk rock with her 1975 debut album Horses.
Called "Godmother of Punk" she integrated the beat poetry performance style with garage rock. Her allusions introduced 19th century French poetry to American teens, while her "unladylike" language defied the disco era. Smith is most widely known for the song "Because the Night", which was co-written with Bruce Springsteen and reached number 13 on Billboard Hot 100 chart.
In 2005 Patti Smith was named a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by French Minister of Culture.

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Average rating: 4.13 · 23,859 ratings · 3,710 reviews · 21 distinct works

	Just Kids 4.13 avg rating — 22,113 ratings — published 2010 — 26 editions	My rating:
	Early Work: 1970-1979 4.13 avg rating — 242 ratings — published 1994 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Patti Smith, Complete: Lyrics, reflections, and notes for the future 4.36 avg rating — 171 ratings — published 1998 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Babel 4.19 avg rating — 140 ratings — 6 editions	My rating:
	Auguries of Innocence: Poems 3.80 avg rating — 143 ratings — published 2005 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Woolgathering 4.13 avg rating — 165 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Coral Sea 4.02 avg rating — 94 ratings — published 1996 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Seventh Heaven 4.20 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 1972 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Witt 4.03 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 1973 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Ha! Ha! Houdini 4.00 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1977	My rating:

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“Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book."

(Acceptance speech, National Book Award 2010 (Nonfiction), November 17, 2010)”
― Patti Smith

tags: books , materialism , musicians , pure-awesome , technology

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“I don't fuck much with the past but I fuck plenty with the future.”
― Patti Smith

tags: fuck , future , past

96 people liked it

“Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine.”
― Patti Smith

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