My father was a dreamy fellow - he read Plato and Socrates and watched Phillies games. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
My mom loved rock 'n roll. My father hated it. We couldn't play it when he was around. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
My father was always talking about God, and I idolized my father, so I'd spend hours trying to have mental telepathy with… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
My father came a couple of times, but he always blamed his hearing loss on my loud amplifiers. So he didn't come… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
My father's mother was from Liverpool and she had this very beautiful English china. I only wanted to drink my cocoa out… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
My father hated rock and roll - hated it. My first real argument with my father was over the Rolling Stones. And… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
[Steven Sebring] presence was also nice for my children, who, having just lost their father, quite naturally craved warm male attention. They… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
My mother and father had so many ups and downs and stayed with each other and helped each other. My mother took… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I never had aspirations to go into politics or medicine. I always wanted to be an artist of some sort. I wasn't… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I always thought my father [influenced me most] because he was so well read, I tried to model myself on him, but… — 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