Patti Smith on Leonard Cohen

[Quasand]

NEW BOOK

BREAK IT UP: PATTI SMITH'S HORSES AND THE REMAKING OF ROCK 'N' ROLL BY MARK PAYTRESS

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Any musician who described himself or herself as a poet who didn't answer to the name Leonard Cohen virtually guaranteed disappointment. Too many self-styled rock poets had nearly killed the phenomenon.

[lizzytysh]

HaHA ~ I LOVE the way Patti put it, too!!! Sooooo true. He set the bar very high for anyone else.

" . . . who didn't answer to the name Leonard Cohen virtually guaranteed disappointment.?"
So true it was worth repeating.

Thanks for posting this, Quasand.


~ Lizzy

[Jokapaikanapina]

Ha, really good one! And very true too