Even well-known musicians who have been performing for decades get nervous and Patti Smith is no exception.
The Because the Night singer-songwriter attended the Nobel Prize presentation ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden, on Saturday to perform in place of Bob Dylan, who was awarded the literature prize but couldn't attend.
Smith, performing Dylan's A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall, forgot the lyrics for the song midway through.
Patti Smith asked the orchestra to start again after stumbling in the middle of her performance. She said she was nervous. (Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)
She stumbled just before the line: "I saw a room full of men with their hammers a-bleedin'."
"I apologize. I'm sorry, I'm so nervous," Smith told the audience of 1,500 with a smile, asking the orchestra to start over.
The moment was met with comforting applause from the audience, dressed in sequined dresses, jewels and tuxedos. Many watching clearly felt for her. Smith recovered and continued on with no further mishaps.
Dylan had announced earlier he would not be going to the event, citing other commitments. He sent a thank you speech instead, to be read out at the ceremonial banquet.
The initial announcement regarding his win was met with mixed reaction: Some argued it was a positive change to recognize a songwriter, while others considered it a ploy to appeal to the masses.
Bob Dylan, seen here performing in Los Angeles in 2012, said he would not be attending the Nobel Prize ceremony and sent a thank you speech to be read out instead. (Chris Pizzello/Associated Press)
During the awards ceremony speech, Horace Engdahl, a member of the Swedish Academy and the Nobel Committee for Literature, defended the decision.
"By means of his oeuvre, Bob Dylan has changed our idea of what poetry can be and how it can work," Engdahl said Saturday. "If people in the literary world groan, one must remind them that the gods don't write. They dance and they sing."
'I'm sorry, I'm so nervous': Patti Smith forgets Bob Dylan lines during Nobel Prize performance
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