January 19, 2021January 19, 2021 Allan ShowalterLeonard Cohen “Death of a Ladies’ Man remains one of the most audacious attempts to look at that sobering mixture of longing and regret that makes up so much of life, not bitterly…or nostalgically…but candidly and, sometimes, humorously.” Liel Leibovitz On The Leonard Cohen-Phil Spector Collaboration
January 19, 2021January 19, 2021 Allan ShowalterLeonard Cohen “We used to sit there & smoke grass… & put on that Leonard Cohen music, and life was really tolerable” Robert Altman Talks About Leonard Cohen’s Songs In The McCabe & Mrs. Miller Soundtrack
January 18, 2021 Allan ShowalterLeonard Cohen Hear Leonard Cohen Talk About Lines Written Under “The Tyranny Of Rhyme,” Politics, Love As An Ailment, Anjani, Recycling His Art & More – 2006
January 18, 2021January 18, 2021 Allan ShowalterLeonard Cohen “[Phil Spector] would change clothes four times a day, and each time he’d have a different gun on to match the outfit.” Doc Pomus Visits Leonard Cohen & Phil Spector Working On Death Of A Ladies’ Man
January 18, 2021January 18, 2021 Allan ShowalterLeonard Cohen “[Phil Spector] is very nice but he pretends to be violent. He kept a lot of guns around and armed bodyguards; bullets and wine bottles littered the floor…A pretty dangerous situation.” Leonard Cohen
January 17, 2021 Allan ShowalterLeonard Cohen “I’m very fond of Phil Spector… he’s one of the great, magnificent figures… It’s just that I don’t have much of an appetite for magnificence” Leonard Cohen
January 17, 2021 Allan ShowalterLeonard Cohen “Sitting in my room ‘with that hopeless little screen.’ Not just ‘TV,’ but ‘the hopeless, little screen.’ I think those are the details that delight us.” Leonard Cohen On Employing Details In Songwriting
January 17, 2021January 17, 2021 Allan ShowalterQuotations “Make it a rule never to withhold or conceal from yourself anything that may be thought against your own thoughts. Vow it! This is the essential requirement of honest thinking. You must undertake such a campaign against yourself every day.” Friedrich Nietzsche
