Patti Smith Quotes

I wanted girls to scream at me. I wanted to be a rock star.

I loved being a rock and roll star, but it wasn't what I wanted in life.

I'm not a rock star. Sure I am, to a certain extent because of the situation, but when kids ask me how it feels to be a rock star, I say leave me alone, I'm not a rock star. I'm not in it for the fame, I'm in it because I like to play.

It's great to play a rock star. Maybe not so great to be one.

At heart I cannot accept that I am a well-known rock 'n' roll star and one of the greatest drummers in the world.

Being a rock & roll star has become as legitimate a career option as being an astronaut or a policeman or a fireman.

When I was 15 and dreaming about being a rock star... I thought the whole point of it was to get chicks.

You can't buy being a rock star.

Being a rock star is being a rock star, I don't need to go into the details. What would you do if you were a rock star?

When you are a rock star in front of 20,000 people, you receive instant gratification. A rock star on tour is a king in his domain.

The rock star stuff never came up for us. The Band was never attacked by groupies before, during or after any show that we ever played.

I think a lot of people secretly wish they were a rock star, and I'm no exception.

That feeling of being 19 or 20 and 'hot' in Hollywood was so intense.

Now I realize that from '72 through to about '76, I was the ultimate rock star. I couldn't have been more rock star.

I've never really aspired to the spotlight; I just wanted to do music, which is kind of weird because music comes with that spotlight.

I had rock-star dreams from 8 or 9 almost nonstop. I thought it was going to be like being a god on earth: having as many women as you want whenever you want them, having super powers, being incredibly wealthy, never doing laundry.

Am I a rock star? Yeah, I guess.

I never got into this business thinking I'd be like a movie star.

I think being a rock star is a little bit different than being an athlete or even a movie star.

It's one thing to look at someone like Beyonce and Rihanna and to see how beloved and talented they are, and it's another thing to live inside it.

I don't have to be a star - I don't have to be famous.

If it were just a dream to be famous, then I probably would have died a really quick death, because there is nothing about me that equals fame. I'm not a standup comedian. I don't sing.

I never thought I'd be a, quote, 'rock & roll star.'

Being a star is not a job, and that's really important for me say.

Just because I'm a successful singer who's loved and has been loved for years doesn't mean I'm sitting behind electric gates in my own fantasy land.