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20.June.2012
A Leonard Cohen Minute: Manifesting the Experience According to Leonard Cohen
A Leonard Cohen Minute: Manifesting the Experience According to Leonard Cohen
Beetle: How much of your music is imagination and how much of it is taken from real life situations?
Cohen: “I’d say it’s all from real situations. The experience is real but one tries to treat the experience imaginatively.”
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Beetle: Do you try to express more than one emotion in a song?
20.June.2012
Alex Bublitchi in just a quick minute to warm up the wood
Alex Bublitchi in just a quick minute to warm up the wood
20.June.2012
A Leonard Cohen Minute: What Allan Ginsburg Asked Leonard Cohen about Buddhism
A Leonard Cohen Minute: What Allan Ginsburg Asked Leonard Cohen about Buddhism
Kurzweil: Where does Judaism fit in?
20.June.2012
A Leonard Cohen Minute: Poets Who Influenced Leonard Cohen
A Leonard Cohen Minute: Poets Who Influenced Leonard Cohen
“I was 15 when I first became deeply touched by the rhythm and structure of words. I would haunt all the secondhand book shops in Montreal with this huge appetite for poetry. My two great heroes are WB Yeats and Fernando Garcia Lorca.” He quotes from Lorca’s Song Of The Morning Market: “ Under…
19.June.2012
leonardcohenminute: Leonard Cohen performing “The Butcher” in Toronto in 1975. Video uploaded by messalina79. Check out her many rare Leonard Cohen videos and her Adam Cohen videos on her Channel. Other performances of “The Butcher” can be found on ...
19.June.2012
I look up. There you are, standing in your blue between a robe of frozen water and the black winter bark. I kneel down with the rusted stars, another ambition-crazed animal brought down gracefully to the forest floor, and whoever was the girl under my fingernails, she stands up in her blue frozen waterfall with a baby made of dust…
19.June.2012
leonardcohenminute: Fifteen Poems by Leonard Cohen. Publisher: Everyman’s Library. Publication date: February 14, 2012.
Fifteen Poems by Leonard Cohen. Publisher: Everyman’s Library. Publication date: February 14, 2012.
19.June.2012
A Leonard Cohen Minute: Leonard Cohen's View on Love
A Leonard Cohen Minute: Leonard Cohen's View on Love
TS: Has you view of romance changed over the past twenty years, since you embarked on your songwriting career?
LC: Well, I think that it changes naturally, but I think that the position I took in some of those early songs is not so far from the position I take now.
TS: Which is?
LC:
15.June.2012
sunshinehello: Javier asked me to photograph his hands. “Is ok, we work on it tomorrow.”
Javier asked me to photograph his hands. “Is ok, we work on it tomorrow.”