Mother Quotes by Patti Smith

My mother answers all my fan mail.

— Patti Smith

My mother loved rock and roll. She loved high-energy music.

— Patti Smith

I've lost lots of men in my life, besides my mother, which is a whole different loss.

— Patti Smith

I was so involved in my boy-rhythms that I never came to grips with the fact that I was a girl. I…

— Patti Smith

My mother and father had so many ups and downs and stayed with each other and helped each other. My mother took…

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My mother had no end of tragedy in her life. She would make herself get up and take a deep breath and…

— Patti Smith

I wanted to see who this Yeats person was, and I said to my mother, 'I want a book by this person.'…

— Patti Smith

My daughter is one of my greatest inspirations. She's an environmentalist, she plays piano, she's raising money for the earthquake victims in…

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“My mother, sitting at the kitchen table, the steam rising from her cup entwining with the smoke curling from her cigarette resting…

— Patti Smith

I have a daughter who's 11 years old. Maybe she'll grow up independent and really really heavy and become a movie star…

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For Christmas every year, my mother used to give me those cheap little diaries that would tell your horoscope and provide a…

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My mission is to communicate, to wake people up, to give them my energy and accept theirs. We're all in it together,…

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In the '50s you had to wear pink ribbons if you were a girl, and you were supposed to become a hairdresser…

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One thing I did have under my belt was, my mother lost her mother when she was 11. She mourned her mother…

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I have abandoned so many projects but in the '80s when I left public life to be married and have real children…

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I always thought my father [influenced me most] because he was so well read, I tried to model myself on him, but…

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“Mommy, I said aloud, and I thought of her suddenly stopping what she was doing, often in the center of the kitchen,…

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My father's mother was from Liverpool and she had this very beautiful English china. I only wanted to drink my cocoa out…

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I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But…

— Patti Smith