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
And sometimes when the night is slow The wretched and the meek We gather up our hearts and go A Thousand Kisses Deep.
When it all comes down to dust I will kill you if I must , I will help you if I can. When it all comes down to dust I will help you if I must, I will kill you if I can.
I want history to jump on Canada's spine with sharp skates.
English, I know you ... you are German with a license to kill.
The troubles came and I saved what I could save. A thread of light, a particle, a wave.
I greet you from the other side of sorrow and despair, with a love so vast and shattered it will reach you everywhere.
Although only one man may be receiving the favors of a woman, all men in her presence are warmed.
And what can I tell you, my brother, my killer, what can I possibly say? I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you, I'm glad you stood in my way
You've got a deadline. Well, I do, too: death.
A man never got a woman back... not by begging on his knees.
I don't know which side is anybody on any more. I don't really care. There is a moment when we have to transcend the side we're on and understand that we are creatures of a higher order.
The wars they will be fought again The holy dove be caught again bought and sold and bought again; the dove is never free.
I couldn't feel so I learned to touch.
There's no concession to the fact that Dylan might be a more sophisticated singer than Whitney Houston, that he's probably the most sophisticated singer we've had in a generation. Nobody is identifying our popular singers like a Matisse or Picasso. Dylan's a Picasso - that exuberance, range, and assimilation of the whole history of music.