Ocupation: Singer-songwriter
Life: b. September 21, 1934
Birthday: September 21
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.
source: "Leonard Cohen at 80". Interview with Mark Ellen, www.thetimes.co.uk. September 19, 2014.
topic: Song, Art, Reality, Good Lyric