"Dancing Barefoot" is a rock song written by Patti Smith and Ivan Kral, and released as a second single from Patti Smith Group 1979 album Wave. According to the album sleeve, the song was dedicated to women such as Amedeo Modigliani's mistress Jeanne Hébuterne.
In 2000, a live version was released on the benefit album Broadcasts Vol. 8 from KGSR in Austin, Texas.
In 2004, this song was ranked number 323 on Rolling Stone's list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time".
Famous quotes containing the words dancing and/or barefoot:
“We have dancing ... from soon after sundown until a few minutes after nine o’clock.... Occasionally the boys who play the female partners in the dances exercise their ingenuity in dressing to look as girlish as possible. In the absence of lady duds they use leaves, and the leaf-clad beauties often look very pretty and always odd enough.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“Daughters of Time, the hypocritic Days,
Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes,”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)