#real

We saw very little of the real Jack Buck behind the microphone. He would touch people in ways that we will never know. Jack was much more than just an announcer. ↗

— Ozzie Smith

#behind #buck #jack #just #know

I am not really certain how original my contribution to music is as I am obviously an amateur. ↗

— Patti Smith

#amateur #certain #contribution #how #i

I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife. ↗

— Patti Smith

#childhood #fanciful #financial #great #had

I had to learn, really, how to rein in my energies and discipline myself. And I found it very very useful. I rebelled against it at first, but it's a good thing to have. ↗

— Patti Smith

#against #discipline #energies #first #found

I have a daughter who's 11 years old. Maybe she'll grow up independent and really really heavy and become a movie star and she'll play me in my life story. ↗

— Patti Smith

#daughter #grow #grow up #heavy #i

I want to be around a really long time. I want to be a thorn in the side of everything as long as possible. ↗

— Patti Smith

#everything #i #long #long time #possible

I wanted to go to Portland because it's a really good book town. ↗

— Patti Smith

#book #go #good #good book #i

Then I read Little Women, and of course, like a lot of really young girls, I was very taken with Jo - Jo being the writer and the misfit. ↗

— Patti Smith

#course #i #jo #like #little

What I really like is an intelligent review. It doesn't have to be positive. A review that has some kind of insight, and sometimes people say something that's startling or is so poignant. ↗

— Patti Smith

#insight #intelligent #kind #like #people

What I say should always be prefaced with this: I'm not really politically articulate. I just try to be like Thomas Paine: what is common sense? So when I say these things to you, I am speaking from a humanist point of view. I just look around and see what's wrong. ↗

— Patti Smith

#am #around #articulate #common #common sense