But their significance is affirmed by others. People are doing their courting, people are finding their wives, people are making babies, people are washing their dishes, people are getting through the day, with songs that we may find insignificant. There are always meaningful songs for somebody. inspiration - comes a spectacular and wide-ranging 1992 conversation with Cohen, who begins by considering the purpose of music in human life: By the time Bob Dylan rose to fame, Cohen already had several volumes of poetry and two novels under his belt, including the critically acclaimed Beautiful Losers, which famously led Allen Ginsberg to remark that “Dylan blew everybody’s mind, except Leonard’s.” Once he turned to songwriting in the late 1960s, the world of music was forever changed.įrom Paul Zollo’s impressive interview compendium Songwriters on Songwriting ( public library) - which also gave us Pete Seeger on originality, Bob Dylan on sacrifice and the unconscious mind, and Carole King on perspiration vs. Recipient of the prestigious Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and countless other accolades, and an ordained Rinzai Buddhist monk, his music has extended popular song into the realm of poetry, even philosophy. His life has always been dangerously mythic.Canadian singer-songwriter, poet, and novelist Leonard Cohen (September 21, 1934–November 7, 2016) is among the most exhilarating creative spirits of the past century. "Cohen has always been a man of surprises, so much so that many take him to be a man of artful disguises (as he sometimes does himself). What he finds is a man with a unique ability to serve up bleak but heartfelt individual truth. Author David Sheppard explores Cohen's fifty year odyssey through Judaic mythology, drugs, alcohol, sex, and Buddhism. He has written two novels including the cult classic Beautiful Losers, and eight volumes of poetry. His most recent album, The Future, is his eleventh.
Born in Montreal in 1934, Cohen received international recognition for his second collection of poems The Spice Box of the Earth in 1961, rising to prominence in 1967 with his debut album The Songs of Leonard Cohen.
He was officially ordained a Buddhist monk and given the name of Jikan (Silent One). The consort of Janis Joplin and Rebecca De Mornay and one-time collaborator of Phil Spector, Leonard Cohen has for the last five years been a full-time resident of the Mount Baldy Zen Center near Los Angeles where he submitted to the rigors of zazen and communal living.
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