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I was pretty taken with Patti Smith, she was my heroine. -- Gavin Rossdale
Fashion's been really good to me. It financed Patti Smith: Dream of Life. -- Steven Sebring
I wish I could have hung out with Patti Smith in the seventies, and also have some crazy times. -- Ellie Goulding
The first time I met Patti Smith was in a laundromat. We knew some of the same people, including Richard Hell. -- Tom Verlaine
Hopefully I can inspire lots of people to learn about [Patti Smith], to read poetry or learn about William Blake or Arthur Rimbaud. -- Steven Sebring
I'm partial to slouchier, more free clothing. My icon is Patti Smith, so the more rips, the more punk, the more comfortable I feel. -- Troian Bellisario
You don't have favorites among your offspring, and you don't among the artists you're involved with, but clearly among my most favorite was Patti Smith. -- Clive Davis
I love to sing old Motown songs to myself, or some Patti Smith Edith Piaf or Billie Holiday. That gets me in the mood for singing. -- Siobhan Fahey
We just grew to trust each other [with Patti Smith] more and more over the years. Most of the time I didn't even have a movie camera. -- Steven Sebring
I do remember, the first time we met [with Patti Smith], the door opening with a squeak. And then there was this very beautiful girl looking out. -- Steven Sebring
I'm halfway through Patti Smith's memoir 'Just Kids,' which is heart-stoppingly vivid. It drips with beauty and hope and devastating candour. I don't want it to end. -- Hattie Morahan
I'm absolutely obsessed with The Jesus And Mary Chain and Patti Smith, but I'm a massive pop fan. I love pop culture, It's a total reflection of the zeitgeist. -- Siobhan Fahey
The photograph, the clothes, the sets - this was about 1974, and I started hanging out with my friend Richard Sold, who was playing in a band with Patti Smith. -- Stephen Sprouse
I don't find R.E.M. to be nihilistic. There is a constant undertone of joyous optimism. I'm not going to kill myself to Patti Smith or R.E.M. -- Michael Stipe
Hollywood is about playing the game, and I can't think of any successful actresses who didn't play the game. There's a lot more renegades in the music business, from Patti Smith to Janis Joplin. -- Madonna Ciccone
I love a lot of the New York bands, but Patti Smith stands out. I just read 'Just Kids' and it's an inspirational, well-written account of an emerging New York artist in the late seventies. -- James Iha
I have total respect for the self-contained rock artist. Whether you're dealing with Jerry Garcia or Lou Reed or Patti Smith or a Whitney or an Aretha, they know what they want with their career. -- Clive Davis
There were a lot of people doing new and interesting things with rock. But I wanted to take it farther than that. My real influence was punk. I must have listened to the first Patti Smith album 300 times. -- Glenn Branca
I wasn't familiar with Patti [Smith ]much at all. When I was asked to photograph her, my wife said, "Oh my God, Patti Smith!"Â So I looked at some Robert Mapplethorpe books and I recognized those pictures. -- Steven Sebring
My years with Aretha Franklin have been very special, as were the years making records with Dionne Warwick. Other highlights include working with Janis Joplin, who was the first artist I ever signed, as well as Patti Smith and Alicia Keys. -- Clive Davis
Things tends to often [consolidate] like Disney. It's the same with music. There's Bruce Springsteen and Neil Young and Patti Smith. There's these three people that everyone seems to agree on. No matter what they like, they seem to like those three. -- Stephen Malkmus
[Columbia House] magazines were how I found out about the punk world going on in New York. Because of what I read, at the age of 15, I hounded the local record store to order a copy of Horses [1975] for me by Patti Smith. -- Michael Stipe
I love biographies. I read Patti Smith's 'Just Kids.' I'm into that time frame in New York, the '70s and '80s. In art school, I read 'Close to the Knives,' the autobiography of the artist and AIDS activist David Wojnarowicz. -- Barry McGee
Punk-rock records came out and you bought whatever you could find. But Devo didn't happen for another three years. Sex Pistols didn't tour the States until '78. At that time, for me, it was really about CBGB, Patti Smith, Talking Heads, the Ramones, and Television. -- Michael Stipe
I was very aware of performers who have a persona, whether it's Siouxsie Sioux or Patti Smith or Lydia Lunch, and I'm just this middle-class girl coming from a more conventional upbringing, this California person. But in a way I felt like it's important to represent the normal. -- Kim Gordon
You pick up loads of baggage with your first record with reaction to it from fans and critics. So I went to Ireland by myself for a couple of weeks with my guitar. I read lots of poetry, I read Patti Smith's autobiography and started words and phrases and then songs started to take shape. -- Ellie Goulding
I play the guitar. This year at the Sundance film festival, I joined the band from 'The Guitar' on stage. We warmed up for Patti Smith, and then the director Michel Gondry got on the drums to play some songs from the soundtrack to his film Be Kind Rewind with Mos Def. It was pretty mad. -- Saffron Burrows
There's a part of me that wishes I could go out in T-shirt and jeans, 'cause I really love Patti Smith, Cat Power, girls who look so casual; that appeals to me 'cause I guess it's the opposite from what I do. But I can never let myself just do that - I always have to try and dress up and create something. -- Bat for Lashes
I quickly realized that Patti [Smith] was somebody very special. -- Steven Sebring
I just wanted to be Patti's [Smith] messenger and get her word out there. -- Steven Sebring
I was making a film [Dream of Life] about Patti [Smith], but I was taking pictures, too. -- Steven Sebring
I shot [Dream of Life] all on 16-millimeter, and I just wanted to learn about Patti [Smith]. -- Steven Sebring
I became Patti's [Smith] messenger, basically, and the film is my view of how I learned about Patti. -- Steven Sebring
When I went to Detroit, I was very naÃ¯ve, actually, and I think Patti [Smith] picked up on that quite quickly. -- Steven Sebring
I took pictures of the objects and artifacts that Patti [Smith] would show to her friends because I wanted to document them. -- Steven Sebring
She let me in during her tour, in London. Her band members - especially Lenny Kaye - were shocked at the fact that I was filming Patti [Smith]. -- Steven Sebring
We were just hanging out and getting to learn about each other. But I think trust was a really big thing. Patti [Smith] is a good friend, somebody I can talk to. -- Steven Sebring
Patti [Smith] was my experiment, to be honest. And the film is what we got out of it. At the end of the day, I learned a lot about how to make a film. -- Steven Sebring

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