# Patti Smith on Jim Morrison — Please Quote Me

> Jim Morrison was trying to elevate the word; he was the poet in rock & roll before me.

— Patti Smith, on Jim Morrison

Source: Rolling Stone (interview by Dave Marsh), 1976 (print)
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