„Yeah, I see what you mean. I think of Bob
Dylan, who gets the inflections of street talk, the inflections of
conversation, and does that with such mastery … where you can hear a little
tough guy talking. You can hear somebody praying. You can hear somebody asking.
You can hear somebody coming onto you. When you’re composing that material and
you know that it’s going to occupy aural space, you can compose it with those
inflections in mind. And of course it does invite irony because that irony can
be conveyed with the voice alone whereas on the page you generally have to have
a larger construction around the irony for it to come through. You can’t just
write, ‘What’s it to ya? ‘ If you sing, ‘What’s it to ya?’ to some nice chords
it really does sound like, ‘Well, what’s it to yah, baby?’ But, just to
see it written, it would need a location.”*
Leonard Cohen
* Dintr-un interviu luat de Robert Sward la Montreal, în 1984
(sursa: LeonardCohenFiles)
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