Re: still want to seperate the politics from the music?

["Andrew F Wilson" <andrewfwilson>]

I think this has been lifted from the interview with Patti in The
Independent today (6 June 2006, extra section, p.15).  The full
interview is not yet available online, but might be later in the week.

Kind regards


Andrew

On 6/6/06, Dennis Moore <clayboy56> wrote:
> SMITH: 'I'M NO MUSICIAN'
>
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> http://www.pr-inside.com/smith-im-no-musician-r7231.htm
>
> Legendary punk rocker PATTI SMITH refuses to be labelled a musician,
> insisting her songs are a political act rather than a craft.
> The BECAUSE THE NIGHT singer initially dreamed of a career in the
> opera but believed her voice was too "bronchial" for soprano
> performances. She has since settled as an artist and poet, and
> dismisses her pioneering records, including 1975's hugely acclaimed
> album HORSES, as a side-project. Smith says, "I had no interest in
> being a musician. I'm not a musician now and I can't even say I'm a
> real singer. "I've never had training and I haven't devoted myself to
> developing a craft. "I've always looked at my participation in rock
> 'n' roll as more of a political one, something that I did to incite or
> excite or inspire people."
>
> (I wonder if this is an excerpt from a longer interview which appears
> somewhere?)