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
A community is an alibi for the failure of individual love.
And I had not much of a voice. I didn't play that great guitar either.
Pay attention to the cracks, because that's where the light gets in.
You are locked into your suffering and your pleasures are the seal.
God is alive. Magic is afoot. God is alive. Magic is afoot. God is afoot. Magic is alive. Alive is afoot. Magic never died. God never sickened. Many poor men lied. Many sick men lied. Magic never weakened. Magic never hid. Magic always ruled. God is afoot. God was ruler though his funeral lengthened. Though his mourners thickened Magic never fled...
And most people have a woman in their heart, most men have a woman in their heart and most women have a man in their heart.
I always felt I was scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to get a song together.
My two great heroes are W. B. Yeats and Fernando Garcia Lorca.
Oh the sisters of mercy, they are not departed or gone.
Creators care nothing for their systems except that they be unique.
I felt like if any two people had any kind of sexual affinity for each other they had to sleep with each other immediately, otherwise it was a terrible betrayal and waste...Fortunately, I'm relieved of those obsessions now. It's really wonderful. It's really wonderful not feeling you have to sleep with everybody.
The duty of lovers is to tarnish the Golden Rule
I guess you go for nothing, if you really want to go that far.
This mental space is occupied and everything is mine.