I sang 'O Holy Night' with the Vatican orchestra, but also a Blake - a lullaby that William Blake wrote for the… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I started going to Bible school really early in life. Being raised a Jehovah's Witness, I had to read the Bible over… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Eyeing the traffic circulating the lobby hung with bad art. Big invasive stuff unloaded on Stanley Bard in exchange for rent. The… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
A lullaby should be timeless because it's a timeless concept - the birth of the child. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
My daughter is one of my greatest inspirations. She's an environmentalist, she plays piano, she's raising money for the earthquake victims in… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
One thing I did have under my belt was, my mother lost her mother when she was 11. She mourned her mother… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I was so unhealthy as a child, and at least three or four times my parents were told to get ready, that… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Since I was a child, I hated having to deal with my hair. I hated having to change my clothes. As a… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
In the period where I had to live the life of a citizen - a life where, like everybody else, I did… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
We never had any children," he said ruefully. "Our work was our children. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
When I was working on the lyrics, I thought of all the lullabies we learn as children: "Away in the Manger," William… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I have abandoned so many projects but in the '80s when I left public life to be married and have real children… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
As a child I was such an intense daydreamer; I could be so gone that I had to be smacked to come… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Sometimes [people] seem to think I came out of the womb, you know, cursing, with an electric guitar. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“Inside it he inscribed a few lines of poetry, portraying us as the gypsy and the fool, one creating silence; one listening closely to… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“I clawed through a thick web of the culture’s consciousness that I hadn’t known existed.” — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Ultimately, we are not seeking others to bow to, but to reinforce our individual natures, to help us suffer our own choices, to guide… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
If I'm taking a picture of Brancusi's grave, I know that there's something of him, of his mortal remains, beneath my feet, and there's… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I'm certain, as we filled down the great staircase, that I appeared the same as ever, a moping twelve years-old, all arms and legs.… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
New York is the thing that seduced me. New York is the thing that formed me. New York is the thing that deformed me.… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I don't wanna be equal with anybody. I wanna be above equal. I don't think most people are equal to me. I'd like to… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
![“Sometimes [people] seem to think I came out of the…” quote by Patti Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c73/patti-smith-394_cursing_sometimes-people-seem-to-think-i-came-ou_28268.jpg)
