(b. 1934– )
Canadian-born singer-songwriter, musician, poet, and novelist“My ordinary state of mind is very much like the waiting room at the DMV.”
more infosource: Songwriters on Songwriting by Paul Zollo (New York: Da Capo Press, 2003).
category: Department of Motor Vehicles, music, songwriting
medium: Interview
“We walked between the rows of sewing machines, cutting tables, defunct steam pressers. There is nothing more quiet than a still factory.”
more infosource: Beautiful Losers (New York: Vintage, 1993), 42.
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category: factory, quiet, silence
medium: Fiction
“Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in.”
source: “Anthem,” The Future (Columbia, November, 1992).
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category: crack, imperfection, light
medium: lyric
notes: Arranged by Leonard Cohen, Rebecca De Mornay, and Yoav Goren
via: Nellie Perera
Leonard Cohen