Patti Smith Quotes

Hopefully, I have a certain amount of what you call musical talent.

There are some people who are just plain great at making music. That's not who I am.

The only thing I was any good at was music.

I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.

Although they can do it all the time, you know, they're far better than me, on a musically, on a theoretical music level. You know, they're out of my league.

I play guitar... I like to say that I'm pretty good, but it takes someone else to tell you that you're really good.

By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso.

See, I'm not a very good musician.

Frank's bands could play the hardest stuff and make it seem like no big deal.

I know I'm not musically talented.

To put it in musician's terms, my chops are good.

I was always good at music.

Was music my talent really? No, I don't think I was particularly talented.

Can't no man play like me.

I'm not saying I'm the bee's knees. But I am a legitimate musician.

I don't really admire musicianship per se - as is obvious from my own playing.

There are more bad musicians than there is bad music.

I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.

Everybody on our cast is very musically talented, except for me.

The Doors were never that good as musicians.

So, I really don't consider myself a fabulous keyboard player.

My first two records are so simply constructed. The reason isn't because I wanted to make simple music. It's because I don't really have the chops.

The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.

I took the rhythm place, which a lot of people didn't know how to do the way I could, and this was really the first time that Johnny had a rhythm guitar player.

Any idiot who knows five chords can bang a song together. But it's probably going to be rubbish.