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
Only in Canada could somebody with a voice like mine win 'Vocalist of the Year'.
Every heart to Love will come, but like a refugee
May you be surrounded by friends and family, and if this is not your lot, may the blessings find you in your solitude.
We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.
I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face.
Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity.
Never make a decision when you need to pee.
Here's to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don't even care
even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.
It's time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
Deprivation is the mother of poetry.
I fought against the bottle, but I had to do it drunk. Took my diamond to the pawn shop, but that don't make it junk.
I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin