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Leonard Cohen

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I was 15 when I first became deeply touched by the rhythm and structure of words.


— Leonard Cohen


#deeply #first #i #rhythm #structure

If I knew where the good songs came from, I'd go there more often.


— Leonard Cohen


#go #good #good songs #i #knew

Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chords when I knew five!


— Leonard Cohen


#cruel #english #especially #five #i

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.


— Leonard Cohen


#everything #gets #how #light

My two great heroes are W. B. Yeats and Fernando Garcia Lorca.


— Leonard Cohen


#garcia #great #heroes #two #yeats

Out of the thousands who are known or who want to be known as poets, maybe one or two are genuine and the rest are fakes, hanging around the sacred precincts, trying to look like the real thing.


— Leonard Cohen


#genuine #hanging #known #like #look

The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show.


— Leonard Cohen


#get #i #i am #older #running

The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.


— Leonard Cohen


#clinical #conversations #days #depression #finds

We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're paid for it.


— Leonard Cohen


#guitar #more #much #music #nobody

When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you.


— Leonard Cohen


#certain #overtakes #repose #sense #stop






About Leonard Cohen

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Did you know about Leonard Cohen?

Cohen has been inducted into the American Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and both the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame. In 1992 Cohen released The Future which urges (often in terms of biblical prophecy) perseverance reformation and hope in the face of grim prospects. "
Cohen attended Roslyn Elementary School and from 1948 Westmount High School where he was involved with the student council and studied music and poetry.

His work often explores religion isolation sexuality and interpersonal relationships. Leonard Norman Cohen CC GOQ (born 21 September 1934) is a Canadian singer-songwriter musician poet and novelist. In a speech at Cohen's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on 10 March 2008 Lou Reed described Cohen as belonging to the "highest and most influential echelon of songwriters.

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