Chelsea Hotel - Tumblr Posts
I just wanna listen to lou reed and the velvet underground while in ny is it that hard
So many had written, conversed, and convulsed in these Victorian dollhouse rooms. So many skirts had swished these worn marble stairs. So many transient souls had espoused, made a mark, and succumbed here. - Patti Smith on Just Kids (her thoughts about Chelsea Hotel)
There is invisible string that remembers me about my Dad about Chelsea Hotel and I am just glad I stumbled into Patti Smith's memoir.
The Chelsea was like a doll's house in the Twilight Zone, with a hundred rooms, each a small universe. I wandered the halls seeking its spirits, dead or alive. - Patti Smith
Text Alt: I felt instantly confined by the notion that we are born into a world where everything was mapped out by those before us. I struggled to suppress destructive impulses and worked instead on creative ones. - Patti Smith on Just Kids page. 174
"You drew me from the darkest period of my young life, sharing with me the sacred mystery of what it is to be an artist." - Patti Smith letters to Robert Mapplethrope
Excerpt from Just Kids by Patti Smith ⭐️5/5
Just Kids by Patti Smith
