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
When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you.
Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove Dance me to the end of love..
Here is your cross, Your nails and your hill; And here is your love, That lists where it will
But I'm stubborn as those garbage bags that time cannot decay, I'm junk but I'm still holding up this little wild bouquet: Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.
Garages, barns and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
And clenching your fist for the ones like us Who are oppressed by the figures of beauty.
I almost went to bed without remembering the four white violets I put in the button-hole of your green sweater and how i kissed you then and you kissed me shy as though I’d never been your lover
If I knew where the good songs came from, I'd go there more often.
Music is the emotional life of most people.