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{SPEAKER name="Patti Smith"}
Oh, what, he just wanted to know what I learned from Harry Smith.

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{SPEAKER name="David C. Ward"} Sorry, my bad, that was my job.

{SPEAKER name="Patti Smith"} But I'll, OK. —— Next time.

{SPEAKER name="David C. Ward"} Yes, I know, failed that!

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{SPEAKER name="Patti Smith"}
Yes?

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{SPEAKER name="Patti Smith"} Yes.

{SPEAKER name="David C. Ward"} Yes.

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{SPEAKER name="Unknown"}
Hi, um— First of all, I'm so happy that you have received the honor that deserves you.

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{SPEAKER name="Patti Smith"}
Oh, thank you.

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{SPEAKER name="Unknown"}
You know, like many people in this room, we´ve been in love with you since the 70s, and, uh, we respect all of your work.

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{SPEAKER name="Patti Smith"}
Thank you.

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{SPEAKER name="Unknown"}
Now, having a 22-year-old artist daughter, um, I'm wondering if you have any ideas, or uh, you know what, what artists can do today because it's a whole different world in the art scene; you know they can't go to New York or—

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{SPEAKER name="David C. Ward"}
——Sure they can.——

{SPEAKER name="Unknown"}
—it's very expensive and so—

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{SPEAKER name="Patti Smith"} Well—

{SPEAKER name="David C. Ward"}
Just to, Just to repeat the question— this is a follow-on from my last question to Patti which was with the arts today and how you can make your way in them, um, although that little white purse probably has to have about three hundred dollars in it.

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{SPEAKER name="Patti Smith"}
Well, I mean, I, when, uh— Don't forget I went to New York City looking for a job - not to, not just, you know, um, to fulfill my dreams as an artist—

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{SPEAKER name="Patti Smith"}
—I went there because there was employment at the time, but really I would tell anyone that, especially a young person, what they should be interested in is the evolution of their work.

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{SPEAKER name="Patti Smith"}
You know, it doesn't matter where they're working. You don't have to be in New York City, you can be in Detroit, Philadelphia, Newark. You can be here, any, you know, you can be, go to Europe!

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{SPEAKER name="Patti Smith"}
It doesn't matter where you are, um, unless you're trying to build a scene, um, and maybe that would be more important, but the important, real important thing is just to focus on work.

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{SPEAKER name="Patti Smith"}
I talk to people all the time and they seem so, you know, "Should I get a manager?", "Should I get an agent?", "Where can I go to get a gallery?" and you know—

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{SPEAKER name="Patti Smith"}
—First of all, the, it's, it's your motivation-- what you wanna do, what you wanna give people, what you have to say, how you can develop your skills and um,

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{SPEAKER name="Patti Smith"}
I mean, I'm 63 years old and I'm still learning, you know, there's a lotta, uh, it's, it's work, hard work, and the first thing one shouldn't, should—

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{SPEAKER name="Patti Smith"}
—the last thing one should be worrying about is how they're gonna get famous, how they're gonna get a record deal, how they're gonna get in a gallery.

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{SPEAKER name="Patti Smith"}
The first thing is just developing your work into something worthy

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{SPEAKER name="David C. Ward"}What are you working on now?

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{SPEAKER name="Patti Smith"}Me?

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{SPEAKER name="David C. Ward"}Yeah.

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{SPEAKER name="Patti Smith"} Um, making a record, writin' uh, writin'.

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{SPEAKER name="David C. Ward"}Writin'.
{SPEAKER name="Audience"}[[laughter]]

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{SPEAKER name="Patti Smith"}And uh taking photographs, drawing, um, you know I'm always working, always doing something.