I love a lot of the New York bands, but Patti Smith stands out. I just read 'Just Kids' and it's an inspirational, well-written account of an emerging New York artist in the late seventies.
“The real good comedians, like Chaplin, would make you laugh and a second later, cry.”
“No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.”