10 Leonard Cohen quotes - wisdom that will stay with us

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Legendary Canadian singer, songwriter and writer Leonard Cohen passed away on November 10, 2016 in Los Angeles. His work had a strong influence on world culture and remained in the hearts of millions of people around the world.

Leonard Cohen was born in Montreal, Canada in 1934. He began to study poetry in earnest while studying at the university: the first collection of his poems, entitled Let Us Compare Mythologies, was published in 1956, and the first novel in 1963.

In the late 1960s, Cohen moved to the United States and began to study music (first folk, then pop and other genres). His low voice fascinated the audience, and the songs were distinguished by complex topics (religion, loneliness, relationships), but texts that were understandable to everyone.

Leonard Cohen's discography includes twelve studio and six live albums, five compilations, forty-one singles and seven video clips.

Compositions became world famous:

• Suzanne ("Suzanne");
• Hallelujah ("Hallelujah");
• Everybody Knows;
• Waiting for the Miracle and others.

Cohen's hits are often covered.

Leonard Cohen was awarded the highest state decorations of Canada, inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and the American Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

10 quotes by Leonard Cohen

About creativity

“Poetry is proof of life. If your life is ablaze, poetry is its ashes."

About work

“I don’t want to create something to be paid. I want to be paid to create something."

About inspiration

"If I knew where the good songs come from, I would try to go there much more often."

About faith

“Prayer is translation. A person translates himself into a child, expressing his needs in a language that has just begun to learn."

About miracles

“From seven to eleven is a big chunk of life, full of dullness and oblivion. At this age, we gradually lose the gift of communication with animals, and birds stop sitting on our windowsills to chat. Gradually, our eyes get used to what they see, and begin to protect us from the miracle."

About war

"This war will be eternal: a war between those who say that there is a war and those who say that there is no war."

About love

"All the best works on earth are created from a lack of love."

About attachments

"Never buy yourself something that you will be sorry to part with."

About life

"Reality is one of the options for what is happening, which I just can not ignore."

About death

“You cannot be afraid of death forever. Because someday she will come and take this fear along with your life. In addition, with age, every person's brain cells responsible for fear begin to die."