Quote by Leonard Cohen
We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody pick

We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless theyre paid for it. – Leonard Cohen

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The ages of seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled that we slowly lose the gift of speech with animals, that birds no longer visit our windowsills to converse. As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armour themselves against wonder. – Leonard Cohen

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Reflection
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Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep confession. And still we hear, If only this nation had a soul, or, Let us change the way we trade, or, Let us be proud of our region. – Leonard Cohen

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Pollution
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Women stand for the objective world for a man. They stand for the thing that youre not and thats what you always reach for in a song. – Leonard Cohen

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Women
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Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune. – Thomas Fuller

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Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable. – Samuel Johnson

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I met Prince William at a musical festival and he let me know he was a fan of my music. But the invitation to sing at his wedding reception came completely out of the blue. The fact that Kate and William knew the words to my songs was very touching. – Ellie Goulding

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Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something. – Frank Zappa

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I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest. – Muhammad Ali

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Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made. – Edgar Watson Howe

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