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21.June.2012
A Leonard Cohen Minute: Leonard Cohen Tells You Why You Shouldn't Whine
A Leonard Cohen Minute: Leonard Cohen Tells You Why You Shouldn't Whine
One of the things about getting older is that you stop whining. One of the reasons you stop whining is because your experience conveys to you that your trouble is tiny compared to lots of trouble around. Once you feel that clearly, that your trouble is tiny and that there are people at this…
21.June.2012
leonardcohenminute: Leonard Cohen prior to the publication of Death of a Lady’s Man. From “The ‘dead man’ speaks,” The Montreal Gazette, September 23, 1978. Photo by George Cree.
Leonard Cohen prior to the publication of Death of a Lady’s Man. From “The ‘dead man’ speaks,” The Montreal Gazette, September 23, 1978. Photo by George Cree.
21.June.2012
A Leonard Cohen Minute: How Leonard Cohen Charms Women...Lesson 1
A Leonard Cohen Minute: How Leonard Cohen Charms Women...Lesson 1
Jon Pareles of The New York Times tells this story about his lunch with Leonard Cohen:
20.June.2012
leonardcohenminute: Leonard Cohen performing “Joan of Arc” during the 1992/1993 tour with Julie Christensen and Perla Batalla. Video uploaded by rberezin1. Other performances of “Joan of Arc” can be found on the Speaking Cohen channel.
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…