I think what we like about music - and what we like about art in gener…

Leonard Cohen
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I think what we like about music - and what we like about art in general....is that enterprise that stops our minds from spinning. Because we're always all over the place. A good song, a good lyric is a movie: it will just focus and calm and confer significance on this completely bewildering reality that all of us live in. ✨ Leonard Cohen at 80. Interview with Mark Ellen, www.thetimes.co.uk. September 19, 2014.
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