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still want to seperate the politics from the music?
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- From: "Dennis Moore" <clayboy56>
- Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2006 07:32:24 -0700
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SMITH: 'I'M NO MUSICIAN'
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2006-06-06 14:03:51
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?)