If you can even manage to tell exactly what a song is about, all you do is put that song in a box forever, and it loses its evocative power. (Robert Hunter)

If you can even manage to tell exactly what a song is about, all you do is put that song in a box forever, and it loses its evocative power.

Robert Hunter

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