“[My life] doesn’t have many events, so the song has to come out of some other place. It’s not an event and it’s not a message, it’s another kind of colour.” Leonard Cohen

Allan Showalter

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My life seems empty. I’m not saying this in any sense of despair. I mean the quality is empty. It doesn’t have many events, so the song has to come out of some other place. It’s not an event and it’s not a message, it’s another kind of colour.

 

Leonard Cohen

 

From Behind The Enigma By Tony Wilson (New Musical Express: March 25, 1972). Photo by Lars Sandblom.

I am republishing selected posts from my former Leonard Cohen site, Cohencentric, here on AllanShowalter.com (these posts can be found at Leonard Cohen). This entry was originally posted Sept 11, 2018.

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