I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
My father was a dreamy fellow - he read Plato and Socrates and watched Phillies games. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“My mother, sitting at the kitchen table, the steam rising from her cup entwining with the smoke curling from her cigarette resting… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I wanted to see who this Yeats person was, and I said to my mother, 'I want a book by this person.'… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
In the '50s you had to wear pink ribbons if you were a girl, and you were supposed to become a hairdresser… — 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 had no end of tragedy in her life. She would make herself get up and take a deep breath and… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
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 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
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
My parents were very humanistic, but where we lived was not the cultural center of the world. Hardly. So I came to… — 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
I have great respect for my parents. I got such beautiful things from both of them. It doesn't mean that we didn't… — 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
I've lost lots of men in my life, besides my mother, which is a whole different loss. — 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 parents were very well read. They were both New Englanders, not highly educated, but they had a sophisticated... they were both… — 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
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
For Christmas every year, my mother used to give me those cheap little diaries that would tell your horoscope and provide a… — 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
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
My parents had three kids right after the Second World War, and we were all sort of sickly. Then I had a… — 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
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
![“[Steven Sebring] presence was also nice for my children, who, having just lost their father, quite naturally craved warm male attention. They gravitated to him right away.” quote by Patti Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/274/patti-smith-394_attention_steven-sebring-presence-was-also-nice-fo_526295.jpg)
![“I always thought my father [influenced me most] because he was so well read, I tried to model myself on him, but really as I go through life I realise it was my mother who gave me the most valuable instructions. I didn't understand or accept it at the time. She taught me to read and to pray - two…” quote by Patti Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7f7/patti-smith-394_accepting_i-always-thought-my-father-influenced-me_2402878.jpg)
![“Sometimes [people] seem to think I came out of the womb, you know, cursing, with an electric guitar.” 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)
