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
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
I taught him how to dress. He taught me how to live forever.
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.
Music is the emotional life of most people.
If I knew where the good songs came from, I'd go there more often.
Israel, and you who call yourself Israel, the Church that calls itself Israel, and the revolt that calls itself Israel, and every nation chosen to be a nation - none of these lands is yours, all of you are thieves of holiness, all of you at war with Mercy.
I didn't want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write.
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.