January 1, 2023January 1, 2023 Allan ShowalterLeonard Cohen “[By The Rivers Dark] Is About Reconciliation Between The Profane And The Sacred.” Leonard Cohen + Recording
January 1, 2023January 1, 2023 Allan ShowalterLeonard Cohen “I want to write about something that touches me …” Leonard Cohen
December 31, 2022 Allan ShowalterLeonard Cohen “My sense of proprietorship [of my songs] weakens as I get older. I’m happy the songs exist, that I know them & I know the chords and how to sing them.” Leonard Cohen
December 31, 2022December 31, 2022 Allan ShowalterLeonard Cohen Q: Is there a difference between love and obsession? Leonard Cohen: “It is the same difference between the Sermon on the Mount and the Crucifixion”
December 31, 2022December 31, 2022 Allan ShowalterLeonard Cohen “I’m not quite ready to hang up the boxing gloves, but I know where the hook is” Leonard Cohen Welcomes Audience, Performs The Future – Amsterdam 2013
December 31, 2022December 31, 2022 Allan ShowalterLeonard Cohen Judy Collins On Leonard Cohen’s Music “They were songs for the spirit when our spirits were strained to the breaking point.”
December 31, 2022December 31, 2022 Allan ShowalterLeonard Cohen “My natural thrust is to finish things that I’ve begun” Leonard Cohen on his perspective in “proximity to death”
December 30, 2022December 30, 2022 Allan ShowalterLeonard Cohen “Songs don’t dignify human activity. Human activities dignify the song.” Leonard Cohen
December 30, 2022December 30, 2022 Allan ShowalterLeonard Cohen Leonard Cohen Shares Irving Layton’s Advice: “Leonard, are you sure you’re doing the wrong thing?”