A Quote by Steven Sebring

I wasn't familiar with Patti [Smith ]much at all. When I was asked to photograph her, my wife said, "Oh my God, Patti Smith!" So I looked at some Robert Mapplethorpe books and I recognized those pictures.

Steven Sebring

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Steven Sebring
American - Photographer

I became Patti's [Smith] messenger, basically, and the film is my view of how I learned about Patti.

Steven Sebring

I took pictures of the objects and artifacts that Patti [Smith] would show to her friends because I wanted to document them.

Steven Sebring

I was making a film [Dream of Life] about Patti [Smith], but I was taking pictures, too.

Steven Sebring

It took 12 years to put this film [Dream of Life] together, but it was not until toward the end of those 12 years that I looked at Patti [Smith] and said, "Maybe we should do something with this footage."

Steven Sebring

The commercial space industry owes a huge debt to Patti Grace Smith. There might not be a commercial spaceflight industry were it not for Patti's leadership.

Bruce Pittman

The photograph, the clothes, the sets - this was about 1974, and I started hanging out with my friend Richard Sold, who was playing in a band with Patti Smith.

Stephen Sprouse

[Some] times I'd have sound but no image. When Patti [Smith] was singing with her guitar, or doing something amazing with her clarinet, I'd just mess around and record the sound. So we'd use those sounds as another layer in the film [Dream of Life].

Steven Sebring

I just wanted to be Patti's [Smith] messenger and get her word out there.

Steven Sebring

She let me in during her tour, in London. Her band members - especially Lenny Kaye - were shocked at the fact that I was filming Patti [Smith].

Steven Sebring

I wish I could have hung out with Patti Smith in the seventies, and also have some crazy times.

Ellie Goulding

The first time I met Patti Smith was in a laundromat. We knew some of the same people, including Richard Hell.

Tom Verlaine

I've got the biggest crush on Patti Smith.

Shaun Evans

I loved 'Just Kids' by Patti Smith.

Carrie Brownstein

I met Patti Smith, which is not Hollywood, but that really blew my mind. I love her. We were at a very small party, too, on a boat, and I totally fanned out. I told her that I loved her, and wasn't cool at all.

Emily Ratajkowski

'M Train' will take you in and out of dreamscapes and reality and remembrances with prose so spare and matter-of-fact that it delivers a much bigger emotional punch. Patti Smith doesn't need to embellish; she just tells her stories... and her stories are incredible.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

When I started photographing Patti [Smith], I knew that there wasn't a whole a lot of information out there about her. I was periodically interested in films, and so I just kept asking her if I could come around.

Steven Sebring

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