"I’m not saying I wasn’t flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business."
― Patti Smith
Topic(s):
Business
More From Patti Smith
- "Usually when I go to a place for the first time, unless there’s something historical or spectacular that nature has to offer, the first thing I like to do is see what’s on the minds of the people."
- "Good news doesn’t necessarily have to be a positive thing. Bringing good news is imparting hope to one’s fellow man."
- "What I wanted to do in rock ‘n roll was merge poetry with sonic scapes, and the two people who had contributed so much to that were Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison."
More In Business
- "What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love."― Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- "The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you."― Charles Dickens
- "The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them."― Will Rogers