Patti Smith
Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
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New York City Was a Great Place for People Like Me
In south jersey, there wasn't a lot of work. I wanted to meet people like who were more outsider types or more devoted to art. But the first thing i wanted to find was a jobe. New york, at the time, was great for people like me,. Even if you only made like, 60 dollars a week, you could get an apartment for 80 dollars a month. And they came from all over. A lot of kids that were thrown out by their families disowned or were abused in their neighborhoods or down south, or wherever they were from. To come to a place like new york city, where nobody cared, you know, you could dress the way
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