Patrick Leonard posted about his time with Leonard Cohen on Instagram: "From 2010 to 2016 I sat in a little room at Leonard‘s house, writing songs and being friends. This is the first song we wrote. The work we did was simple and humble..."
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“To truly understand the song, you have to look at the original and look towards the long-lost and never recorded ‘Chelsea Hotel’…”
Listen to “Chelsea Hotel #1”
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“[T]he key to the song is that this is a mournful commemoration specifically of Joplin, written after her death and grappling with the fact that her loss hit Cohen hard despite them realistically barely knowing each other…
Listen to 'Chelsea Hotel #2'
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Far Out Magazine: “After one of his most emotional laments that not only remembered Janis Joplin but memorialised an entire scene, [Cohen] suddenly tried to be nonchalant, singing, ‘That’s all, I don’t even think of you that often’…
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I remember Leonard saying once he preferred the Rolling Stones.
"Then fire, make your body cold,
I'm going to give you mine to hold,"
saying this she climbed inside
to be his one, to be his only bride.
--"Joan Of Arc," Songs Of Love And Hate.
Leonard Cohen & Julie Christensen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a30...
Shown: Paul Simon, Leonard Cohen, Keith Richards, Chuck Berry. Photo by Rick Friedman/Kennedy Library Foundation.
Feb 26 2012:
Leonard Cohen & Chuck Berry received the Award for Song Lyrics of Literary Excellence from PEN New England. Cohen thanked the jury & paid homage to Berry:
“If Beethoven hadn’t rolled over, there would have been no room for any of us. All of us are footnotes to the words of Chuck Berry.”
Photo by Alfred Steffen.
Leonard on women: “[W]hat I care most about is whether or not I’m being welcomed by her & I think a lot of the time she worries about whether she is being welcomed by me. So we are each other’s content & we exist in that condition, which goes all the way from grave discomfort to absolute peace...”
COHEN: “All of us are footnotes to the words of Chuck Berry,” Cohen once said, adding in 2010, “If Beethoven hadn’t rolled over, there’d be no room for any of us”.
“Don’t ever let an older member of society tell you that... musicians should stay away from politics. The very foundation of rock music... was founded on the ideals that music was more than just reverberations in the air; they were vibrations in our souls...”
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“1967 Classic Ranked Among ‘Best Rock Breakup Albums’ of All Time” by Nina Derwin, Parade, February 14, 2026.
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“Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows”
-- “The Old Revolution” by Leonard Cohen from Songs From A Room
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Sometimes I love my job. Got Rowan Williams writing on Leonard Cohen this week.
Is Leonard Cohen an optimistic person?
LC: Everybody's hanging onto their broken orange crate in the flood,... to declare yourself an optimist or a pessimist,... or a conservative or a liberal, these descriptions are obsolete in the face of the catastrophe that everybody's really dealing with.
The Wash. Post wrote about a "masterpiece" of video artwork created by Alex Da Corte & commissioned by Leonard Cohen & his daughter Lorca. The video is based on "Chelsea Hotel No. 2" & is a promised gift to The Met. It costs $2 to view. It's worth it.
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“I cannot follow you, my love
You cannot follow me
I am the distance you put between
All the moments that we will be
You know who I am
You've stared at the sun
Well I am the one
Who loves changing from nothing to one”
--“You Know Who I Am” by Leonard Cohen
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Bernie Taupin on songwriters he holds in high regard: "...one of the few people...who can be labelled a genius, along with one of the only people, I think, that can be called a poet, and that’s Leonard Cohen."
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One of my favorite tribute albums with some familiar names including Jackson Brown, Javier Colis, Perla Batalla, Anjani Thomas, Adam Cohen and Javier Mas doing what he does. Acordes Con Leonard Cohen Live 2008:
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Jan 28, 2009
“'OH MY God,’ gasped the 30-something woman... ‘I’m in love with a 74-year old man.’ She was not alone. As the audience spilled out of Leonard Cohen’s show at the Sydney Entertainment Centre..., there were many such declarations of love..." --Sydney Morning Herald. Photo: Jon Reid.
"That's one of the reasons I don't like speaking about myself, because you forget what you really think. You begin to mistake the description for the feelings."
Leonard Cohen's reaction when asked about himself from Maclean’s, June 1972. Photo from 1974, photographer unknown.
Need a break from the day's stresses? Check out the bootleg recording of Leonard performing at The Philharmonie in Köln in 1988. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISji...
That's Anjani Thomas and Leonard Cohen.
"And Jesus was a sailor when he walked upon the water / And he spent a long time watching from his lonely wooden tower..."
"Suzanne" by Leonard Cohen
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New Book: "In The World of Leonard Cohen, a team of international scholars & writers explore the various dimensions of the artist’s life, work, persona, & legacy to offer an authoritative & accessible summation of Cohen’s extraordinary career." Amazon: amzn.to/4jNN4uz
The artist Leonard Cohen crowned as “the most beautiful woman I’d ever seen”
Leonard Cohen in the snow on a park bench in front of his Montreal home from 1992.
Leonard Cohen quote: “Perfection is much too much a luxury for me. It's at a level much more urgent than perfection. It is survival. Personally & for my work... It is a situation where luxury has no place, where only urgency is concerned.” From Throat Culture mag., 1992.
Photo by Jean Goupil, 1992
Nathan Bernard Cohen, Leonard’s father
On this day...January 13, 1944
Nathan Bernard Cohen, Leonard’s father, died.
Nathan Bernard Cohen was born on December 1, 1891, and died on January 13, 1944, at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal at 52, after a long illness.
