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  • When I was a teenager, I dreamed of being an opera singer like Maria Callas or a jazz singer like June Christy or Chris Connor, or approaching songs with the kind of mystical lethargy of Billie Holiday, or championing the downtrodden like Lotte Lenya. But I never dreamed of singing in a rock-and-roll band.

    "Rocker Patti Smith, 'Dream Of Life'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. December 30, 2009.