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Patti Smith

"Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star."

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"Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star."

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"Seeing how those companies operate, it didn't amount to a massive vote of confidence in their artists. There was talk of me going to Columbia after that, but nothing happened. I got disillusioned, and I pulled back."

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"An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something that will eclipse everything else."

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"However, the radio and national media depend much more on the hype from a good record label, and from a " buzz " about a band, then from just one or two good shows. There are a lot of artists that have a ton of good press going for them, and still do not make it big in the US."

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