Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen
Leonard Norman Cohen, CC GOQis a Canadian singer, songwriter, poet and novelist. His work has explored religion, politics, isolation, sexuality, and personal relationships. Cohen has been inducted into both the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame as well as the American Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He is also a Companion of the Order of Canada, the nation's highest civilian honour. In 2011, Cohen received a Princess of Asturias Awards for literature...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionFolk Singer
Date of Birth21 September 1934
CityWestmount, Canada
CountryCanada
We do what only lovers can: make a gift out of necessity.
Everytime you grab at love you will lose a snowflake of your memory
Now, I don't want to give you the impression that I'm a great musicologist, but I'm a lot better than what I was described as for a long, long time; you know, people said I only knew three chords when I knew five.
This civil action is another case of a tragedy that has become all too familiar in the music industry: a business manager and professional advisers exploit an immensely talented artist's loyalty and trust through greed, self-dealing, concealment, knowing misrepresentation and reckless disregard for professional fiduciary duties.
I'm neither left or right. I'm just staying home tonight, getting lost in that hopeless little screen.
The moon is swimming naked and the summer night is fragrant with a mighty expectation of relief.
You were Marlon Brando, I was Steve McQueen, you were K.Y. Jelly, I was Vaseline.
Everybody knows that you've been faithful, give or take a night or two.
The art of longing's over, and it's never coming back.
Shouldering your loneliness like a gun that you will not learn to aim, you stumble into this movie house then you climb, you climb into the frame.
All the lousy little poets coming around trying to sound like Charles Manson.
I lit a thin green candle to make you jealous of me, but the room just filled up with mosquitoes.
G-d is alive. Magic is afoot. G-d is afoot. Magic is alive.
I have to finish it in order to know whether it deserves to survive.