Patti Smith
speaker
369 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 1 Dec
Patti Smith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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If you had not found Lenny K., do you think you wouldn't have been in a rock and roll band?
Because he has been your guitarist kind of forever.
Well, I can't say what would happen.
It was really Sam Shepard who suggested...
You know, I said to Sam when Robert helped me through Gerard Malanga to get my first reading, I said, I got to do something special because if I don't do something special, Gregory's going to, you know, throw tomatoes at me or something.
Gregory Corso, who was mentoring me not to be a boring poet.
And I said, I want to do something special.
And
Sam said, well, you have these.
And I said, well, I could sing a cappella songs.
And he said, well, do you know anybody that plays guitar?
And I said, well, this fella Lenny K mentioned he played a little guitar.
And I don't know how I would have evolved because the thing about Lenny that made him different from everyone else is Lenny was there to magnify my ideas.
He really – I'm not saying –
I'm not saying he was totally selfless.
He had a sense of himself.
But he was completely there for me.
You were saying that you didn't have – you didn't think of yourself as a singer per se, that your friends had better voices than you did.
But you created this new style, really, that was a combination of poetry and music.
It wasn't about having a perfect singer's voice.
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