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Leonard Cohen Biography

Leonard Norman Cohen CC GOQ (September 21, 1934 – November 7, 2016) was a Canadian singer-songwriter, poet and novelist. His work explored religion, politics, isolation, sexuality, and personal relationships. Cohen was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He was a Companion of the Order of Canada, the nation's highest civilian honour. In 2011, Cohen received one of the Prince of Asturias Awards for literature and the ninth Glenn Gould Prize.

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this is every musician's dream, to stand in front of an audience and not have to prove your credentials.

Audience, Credentials, Dream, Prove, Stand

Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else. " Then let's be quiet together.

Alibi, Quiet, Tell, Together

What were the bodies like on the beach? Ugly and white and ruined by offices.

Beach, Like, Offices, Pain, Ruined, White

Other people singing my songs is something that I've never been casual about. I've always been very touched by it and I always go into immediate critical suspension.

Casual, People, Singing, Song, Songs, Suspension

It's time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.

Cry, Laugh, Laughing, Time

I always loved those little creatures [hummingbird], always feel blessed when they appear nearby. There's a magical quality to them. I finally put one in a song.

Blessed, Hummingbird, Nearby, Quality, Song

Only in Canada could somebody with a voice like mine win 'Vocalist of the Year'.

Like, Vocalist, Voice, Win, Winning, Years

Games are nature's most beautiful creation

Beautiful, Creation, Games

I think that really what our training, what our culture, our religious institutions, our educational and cultural institutions should be about is preparing the heart for that journey outside of the cage of the ribs.

Cultural, Educational, Heart, Religious, Training

God is alive. Magic is afoot. God is alive. Magic is afoot. God is afoot. Magic is alive. Alive is afoot. Magic never died. God never sickened. Many poor men lied. Many sick men lied. Magic never weakened. Magic never hid. Magic always ruled. God is afoot. God was ruler though his funeral lengthened. Though his mourners thickened Magic never fled.

Men, Sick, Funeral, Poor, Mourners

I almost went to bed without remembering the four white violets I put in the button-hole of your green sweater and how i kissed you then and you kissed me shy as though I’d never been your lover

Bed, Green, Sweaters, Though, White

We actually lead very violent, passionate lives and I think that we're hungry for insights into this condition. That's why we get all that stuff on television. It's really where we are, really what we are.

Hungry, Passionate, Television, Think, Thinking, Violent

I loved you when you opened like a lily to the heat; you see I’m just another snowman standing in the rain and sleet who loved you with his frozen love, his second hand physique, with all he is and all he was a thousand kisses deep.

Kissing, Love, Loved, Rain

It's not a cry you can hear at night. It's not somebody who has seen the light. It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah.

Broken, Cold, Cry, Light, Night, Seen

There's no concession to the fact that Dylan might be a more sophisticated singer than Whitney Houston, that he's probably the most sophisticated singer we've had in a generation. Nobody is identifying our popular singers like a Matisse or Picasso. Dylan's a Picasso - that exuberance, range, and assimilation of the whole history of music.

Assimilation, Facts, Generations, Houston, Singers, Sophisticated

But remember when I moved in you And the holy dove was moving too And every breath we drew was Hallelujah.

Dove, Hallelujah, Holy, Moving, Remember

I've never thought of myself as a religious person.

Person, Persons, Religious, Religious Person, Thought

How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?

Yesterday, Begin

I want history to jump on Canada's spine with sharp skates.

History, Home, Jump, Spine, Travel, Want

Rust rust rust in the engines of love and time.

Time And Love, Rust, Engines, Love

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