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March 11, 2023March 11, 2023 Allan Showalter

I am republishing selected posts from my former Leonard Cohen site, Cohencentric, here on AllanShowalter.com (these posts can be found at Leonard Cohen). This entry was originally posted May 1, 2018.

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“I was completely empty – and out of that came songs that were very intimate & very personal.” Leonard Cohen On Writing The Songs For His First Album

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“There has always been a religious side to my work. Most of my songs have confused God and woman.” Leonard Cohen + 2013 Dance Me To The End Of Love Performance
“Music was always the thing closest to me, and I saw poetry as part of that.” Leonard Cohen On His Early Influences
“When I stand on a stage, I feel I bring my private life with me there and that that’s what’s interesting or amusing.” Leonard Cohen
Q: Does religion matter? Leonard Cohen: “Religions are among the great organizing principles of humanity. It seems to me they matter too much and not enough.”
“Walking on stage and having thousands of people immediately convulse with emotion – that feeling didn’t go away, I just learned to manage it.” Charley Webb On Leonard Cohen’s 2008 Fredericton Show
“When I went to record the vocal for [I Can’t Forget] I found I couldn’t get the words out of my throat. I couldn’t sing the words because I wasn’t entitled to speak of the emancipation of the spirit.” Leonard Cohen + 2012 Ghent Performance
“The work that was in front of me was just to cultivate this tiny corner of the field that I thought I knew something about, which was something to do with self-investigation without self-indulgence.” Leonard Cohen
“Once you overcome your natural resistance to being told what to do, then you begin to relax into the schedule and the almost voluptuous simplicity of the day, and that whole component of improvisation that tyrannizes much of our lives begins to dissolve.” Leonard Cohen On Zen Monastery Life
“Almost all my songs can be sung any way. They can be sung as tough songs or as gentle songs or as contemplative songs or as courting songs.” Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen On The Difference Between Writing A Poem And A Song

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