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
Music is the emotional life of most people.
I am not the one who loves - It's love that chooses me.
Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.
If your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn they will bind you with love that is graceful and green as a stem.
Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore
Love is not a victory march
There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.
You live your life as if it's real.......a thousand kisses deep
Well I've seen your flag on the marble arch and love is not a victory march, it's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah
If I knew where the good songs came from, I'd go there more often.
In the broken places, the light shines through.
It was a dance of masks and every mask was perfect because every mask was a real face and every face was a real mask so there was no mask and there was no face for there was but one dance in which there was but one mask but one true face which was the same and which was a thing without a name which changed and changed into itself over and over.
My two great heroes are W. B. Yeats and Federico García Lorca.
I taught him how to dress. He taught me how to live forever.