People 人物 To Mention Only A FEW.: 紀念Leonard Cohen (1934-2016)；加拿大歌手、詩人 (Poetry is just the evidence of life If your life is burning well poetry is just the ash. -- Leonard Cohen)及小說家李歐納·柯恩 (Leonard Cohen 的一些經典如hallelujah，花5年。)，近半個世紀以來最具影響力的音樂人之一，曾入選加拿大音樂名人堂和美國搖滾名人堂。搖滾歌手盧·里德曾稱讚科恩是「我們這個時代最崇高、最具影響力的創作人」。「你們都知道我與詩人費德里科·加西亞·洛爾卡有著深厚的友誼。我可以說，當我年輕，還是個少年的時候，我渴望找到自己的聲音，.....但我始終找不到自己的聲音。隨著年齡的增長，我明白這聲音伴隨著教誨。這些教誨是什麼呢？教誨是永遠不要隨意地哀嘆。如果要表達我們所有人終將面臨的巨大而不可避免的失敗，就必須在尊嚴和美的嚴格約束下進行。」And as I grew older I understood that instructions came with this voice. What were these instructions? The instructions were never to lament casually. And if one is to express the great inevitable defeat that awaits us all, it must be done within the strict confines of dignity and beauty"

2026年1月17日星期六

紀念Leonard Cohen (1934-2016)；加拿大歌手、詩人 (Poetry is just the evidence of life If your life is burning well poetry is just the ash. -- Leonard Cohen)及小說家李歐納·柯恩 (Leonard Cohen 的一些經典如hallelujah，花5年。)，近半個世紀以來最具影響力的音樂人之一，曾入選加拿大音樂名人堂和美國搖滾名人堂。搖滾歌手盧·里德曾稱讚科恩是「我們這個時代最崇高、最具影響力的創作人」。「你們都知道我與詩人費德里科·加西亞·洛爾卡有著深厚的友誼。我可以說，當我年輕，還是個少年的時候，我渴望找到自己的聲音，.....但我始終找不到自己的聲音。隨著年齡的增長，我明白這聲音伴隨著教誨。這些教誨是什麼呢？教誨是永遠不要隨意地哀嘆。如果要表達我們所有人終將面臨的巨大而不可避免的失敗，就必須在尊嚴和美的嚴格約束下進行。」And as I grew older I understood that instructions came with this voice. What were these instructions? The instructions were never to lament casually. And if one is to express the great inevitable defeat that awaits us all, it must be done within the strict confines of dignity and beauty"

Leonard Cohen on the impact Federico Garcia Lorca had on his life.
"Now, you know of my deep association and confraternity with the poet Federico Garcia Lorca. I could say that when I was a young man, an adolescent, and I hungered for a voice, I studied the English poets and I knew their work well, and I copied their styles, but I could not find a voice. It was only when -- when I read, even in translation, the works of Lorca that I understood that there was a voice. It is not that I copied his voice; I would not dare. But he gave me permission to find a voice, to locate a voice; that is, to locate a self, a self that that is not fixed, a self that struggles for its own existence.

And as I grew older I understood that instructions came with this voice. What were these instructions? The instructions were never to lament casually. And if one is to express the great inevitable defeat that awaits us all, it must be done within the strict confines of dignity and beauty"
萊昂納德·科恩談費德里科·加西亞·洛爾卡對他的影響。

「你們都知道我與詩人費德里科·加西亞·洛爾卡有著深厚的友誼。我可以說，當我年輕，還是個少年的時候，我渴望找到自己的聲音，我研讀英國詩人的作品，熟知他們的作品，模仿他們的風格，但我始終找不到自己的聲音。

隨著年齡的增長，我明白這聲音伴隨著教誨。這些教誨是什麼呢？教誨是永遠不要隨意地哀嘆。如果要表達我們所有人終將面臨的巨大而不可避免的失敗，就必須在尊嚴和美的嚴格約束下進行。」

The Wall Street Journal

Leonard Cohen leaves behind a catalog of songs and recordings that will continue to warm, enlighten and quietly amaze listeners. He was, and remains, an artist whose work transcends place and time. In “Leaving the Table,” a track on “You Want It Dark,” he sings: “I’m leaving the table. I’m out of the game.” In death, the metaphor may be so. In fact, though, no and never.

Leonard Cohen (1934-2016)
One of the greatest songwriters of the folk-rock era died just weeks after releasing his final album.
WSJ.COM|由 JIM FUSILLI 上傳

The New York Times Chinese -Traditional 紐約時報中文網

#快訊唱片公司發表聲明確認，加拿大歌手、詩人及小說家李歐納·柯恩(Leonard Cohen)今日去世，時年82歲。死亡原因未被透露。

柯恩是近半個世紀以來北美樂壇最具影響力的音樂人之一。在搖滾歌手盧·里德眼中，柯恩是“我們這個時代最崇高、最具影響力的創作人”。

加拿大歌手、詩人萊昂納德·科恩去世

科恩是近半個世紀以來最具影響力的音樂人之一，曾入選加拿大音樂名人堂和美國搖滾名人堂。搖滾歌手盧·里德曾稱讚科恩是「我們這個時代最崇高、最具影響力的創作人」。

CN.NYTSTYLE.COM

Leonard Cohen was a man who used songwriting as a way of making sense of a bewildering world.
'He knew things about life, and if you listened you could learn'

Leonard Cohen – he knew things about life, and if you listened you could learn

The great musician was a man who used songwriting as a way of making…

THEGUARDIAN.COM|由 DORIAN LYNSKEY 上傳

Everyman's Library

RIP poet, singer, songwriter and novelist Leonard Cohen, who died this week at the age of 82.

"Dance Me To The End Of Love"

Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin
Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in
Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love

A magnificent selection of song lyrics and poems from across the storied career of one of the most daring and affecting poet-songwriters in the world. In the more than half century since his first book of poems was published, Leonard Cohen has evolved into an international cult figure who transcends genres and generations. This anthology contains a cross section of his five decades of influential work, including such legendary songs as “Suzanne,” “Sisters of Mercy,” “Bird on the Wire,” “Famous Blue Raincoat,” and “I’m Your Man” and searingly memorable poems from his many acclaimed poetry collections, including Flowers for Hitler, Beautiful Losers, and Death of a Lady’s Man. Encompassing the erotic and the melancholy, the mystical and the sardonic, this volume showcases a writer of dazzling intelligence and live-wire emotional immediacy. READ more here: http://knopfdoubleday.com/book/208959/poems-and-songs/

songwriters worthy of the Nobel Prize in ...

~~~~

2016.11.11
傍晚，BBC World News 訪談某兄，他說Bob Dylan 一首歌曲可能30分鐘就完成了，Leonard Cohen 的一些經典如hallelujah，花5年。
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttEMYvpoR-k

Guardian US

Leonard Cohen was born in Montreal and came to prominence in the 1960s as a poet, novelist and singer-songwriter. His influence on the music industry has been likened to that of his contemporaries Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell — he is perhaps best known for his song Hallelujah, of which he said: “I think it’s a good song, but I think too many people sing it.”