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29.June.2012

Leonard Cohen Defends his Gloomy Songs

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I guess it’s legitimate not to like someone’s work, but somehow those descriptions of my work got into the computer, you know, there was “suicide”, or “bedsit”, or “gloom”, “depressive”, “melancholy”, and every time they’d tap out my name those descriptions would come up. You know, as though seriousness had no place in song. The songs we love best are the sad songs. 

28.June.2012

A Leonard Cohen Minute: Rolling Stone's Review of Leonard's Cohen First Album

A Leonard Cohen Minute: Rolling Stone's Review of Leonard's Cohen First Album

Leonard Cohen

Songs of Leonard Cohen

By ARTHUR SCHMIDT

MARCH 9, 1968

…The record as a whole is another matter — I don’t think I could ever tolerate all of it. There are three brilliant songs, one good one, three qualified bummers, and three are the flaming shits.

28.June.2012

leonardcohenminute: Leonard Cohen, the comedian, as captured from the documentary Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr. Leonard Cohen. Video uploaded by atlanul.

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28.June.2012

A Leonard Cohen Minute: Leonard Cohen, the Minor Poet

A Leonard Cohen Minute: Leonard Cohen, the Minor Poet

KM: Are you surprised at what you’ve achieved in life or did you always feel that you were destined to make yourself heard?

LC: I thought I could do one or two things in writing. I always had the idea of being a kind of minor poet. It was the minor poets I really liked, the writers who put one…