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
Silence And a deeper silence When the crickets Hesitate
My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.
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.
Well it's true, ever since I stopped eating meat I feel a lot better among animals, I feel I can be much more honest when I pat a dog.
You are locked into your suffering and your pleasures are the seal.
English, I know you ... you are German with a license to kill.
I couldn't feel so I learned to touch.
To the men and women who own men and women those of us meant to be lovers we will not pardon you for wasting our bodies and time
When we are touched by a song, it is because the artist cannot hide himself.
I'm planning a catastrophe.
Coroner's inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn't been to the sea-shore in ten years.
Your body will never be familiar.
It doesn't matter how anything happens.
Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else." Then let's be quiet together.