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Patti Smith

Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond

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Musicians' Minds Work, You Know?

When i was young, all i wanted to be was an abstract expression as painter. I would have been happy just being like joan mitchell or dacooning. And i do produce a lot of visual work, but i's just part of me. What made it even more complicated wasn't just that i wrote poetry, and then, you know, obviously i have written books and recorded. Then to throw performing into the mix,. when i thought, o my gosh, just, robert always used to worry about me, say, can't you just pick one? You know, he would worry that i would spread myself too thin.

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