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Remember me? I used to live for music.
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M. Paurer Nowbodhi   —   10 years ago

I got into Leonard's music in around 1986, upon hearing Sandy Denny and Iain Matthews trade verses of "Suzanne" on a late-Sixties BBC session from the "Heyday" album. I think Fairport Convention were among the first to begin covering Cohen tunes; since then his stuff's been tributed by countless artists known and unknown. Didn't Kris Kristofferson say he'd put the opening stanza of "Bird On a Wire" on his tombstone? I think it's the realism focused through the prism of the powerful poesis that is LC's hallmark... this feeling that gets transmitted by the elegant, eternal nature of the words he chooses and the universality of the ideas they form. When you can get across the most complex feelings with the most articulate imagery and still ring the bell like he does, where the emotional resonance connects with and moves people so intensely... it's almost the living, breathing definition of Art, what Leonard does and was doing even before he ever picked up a guitar and changed the world.

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    Lucía - 9 years ago
    Change the world: It seems so simple but it´s only reserved for gods.
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