Various Positions (51 page)

16
“No, I’m a famous nobody”:
LC,
“Cohen Goes Surreal,”
Toronto Star
G3. “holy condition”:
LC
in Dorman 355.

17
“It broke down a lot”: Rowland,
Musician Magazine
102.

18
“I couldn’t get behind”:
LC
in Juan Rodriguez. “The Odd Couple, Leonard Cohen and Michel Pagliaro,”
Montreal Magazine
(March 1990) 38.

19
“Everything is public”:
LC
in Rowland,
Musician Magazine
97.

20
“I have always been touched”:
LC
at the CBS Records Crystal Globe ceremony, New York (9 March 1988)
LCA
.

21
“total commitment”:
LC,
Norwegian Radio, Oslo, 13 February 1988.

22
“demented manifesto”:
LC
in Siemerling, “A Political Constituency,”
Take This Waltz
164.

23
“First we take Manhattan”:
LC
in Siemerling,
Take This Waltz
165.

24
“This waltz, this waltz”: “Take This Waltz,”
IYM
.

25
“to get at the dramatic depths”: Lorca,
Collected Poetry
, xl.

26
“ought to be”: Lorca,
Collected Poetry, xl
.

27
“it caught the mood”:
LC
in Rowland,
Musician Magazine
104.

28
“started off as a song”:
LC
in Rowland,
Musician Magazine
102.

29
“What is my life?”:
LC
in Rowland,
Musician Magazine
102.

30
“make a definite statement”:
LC
in Rowland,
Musician Magazine
104.

31
“necessity to transcend”:
LC
5/11/94.

32
“really placed it”:
LC
5/11/94.

33
“Well, my friends are gone”: “Tower of Song,”
IYM
.

34
“I never thought I
was”:
LC
in Rowland,
Musician Magazine
119.

35
“Now I know what I am”:
LC
in Rowland,
Musician Magazine
100.

36
“They say the Torah”:
LC
in
Songtalk
3: 2: 27.

37
“I don’t really know”:
LC
in Brian Cullman, “Sincerely, L. Cohen,”
Details
(January 1993) 105.

38
“a sardonic last call”: Liam Lacey,
Globe and Mail
(27 November 1993) El.

39
“it doesn’t sound like music”:
LC
quoted by Perla Batalla, 5/11/94.

40
“what you have to go for”:
LC
quoted by Perla Batalla, 5/11/94.

41
“make it like”:
LC
in
Vancouver Province
(16 October 1988) 67.

42
“Orbisize”:
LC
in
Vancouver Province
(16 October 1988) 67.

43
“what you have to do”:
LC
in Rodriguez, “The Odd Couple,”
Montreal Magazine
(March 1990) 38.

44
“I was born like this”: “Tower of Song,”
IYM
.

45
“I think if”:
LC
in Rowland,
Musician Magazine
95.

46
“I’ve come a long way”:
LC
in
Songtalk
3: 2: 31.

47
“as a tribute to”: Lorna Knight,
Let Us Compare Mythologies, Half a Century of Canadian Poetry in English
(Ottawa: National Library of Canada, 1989) 5.

48
“links two vital periods”: Knight 5.

49
“poetic voices became”: Knight 5.

50
“romantic lyricism”: Knight 39.

51
“That’s what it’s all about”:
LC
5/14/94.

52
“he has no psychic skin”: Sean Dixon 5/11/94.

53
“We would go”: SD 5/11/94.

54
“It’s hell, darling”:
LC
quoted by SD 5/11/94.

55
“Leonard, you just”: SD 5/11/94.

56
“You can’t say”: SD 5/11/94.

57
“Things are going to slide”: “The Future,” TF.

58
“If you’re pressed”: “Waiting for the Miracle,” TF.

59
“Leonard is one of”: Rebecca De Mornay in David Browne, “7 Reasons Leonard Cohen is the Next-Best Thing to God,”
Entertainment Weekly
(8 January 1993) 31.

60
“Do you want to know”: “Knowing Rebecca De Mornay like only Leonard Cohen Can,”
Interview
(June 1993) 81.

61
“Solid gold artists”:
LC
in
Entertainment Weekly (8
January 1993) 31.

62
“Rebecca got wise”:
LC
in
RTE Weekly
(20–26 August 1993) 6.

63
“I am trying”:
LC
in Ian Pearson, “Growing Old Disgracefully,”
Saturday Night
(March 1993) 49.

64
“one of the most popular”: Citation, Order of Canada, Governor General’s Office, Rideau Hall, Ottawa (16 August 1993).

65
“exposure to [Layton’s] work”: LC,
Globe and Mail
(25 October 1991) 18.

66
“has never been disloyal”: IL 7/25/94.

1
“From my balcony”: John Walsh, “Melancholy Baby,”
Independent Magazine
(8 May 1993) 40.

2
“those soft California stars”: Jack Kerouac, “The Mexican Girl,”
The Portable Jack Kerouac
177.

3
“a training in self-reform”:
LC
5/11/94; also see LC in Alan Twigg,
Georgia Straight 20
.

4
“It’s very dangerous”:
LC
in
MOJO
(September 1994) 61.

5
“When you rose out”: “The Mist of Pornography,”
LCA
.

6
“My Life in Art”:
DLM
192.

7
“to the painful decision”:
LC
12/29/94.

8
“but when I listened”:
LC,
Songtalk
3
: 2:27
.

9
“the way I do things”:
LC
5/11/94.

10
“And the whole damn place”: “Closing Time,” TF.

11
“A pessimist”:
LC
in Reuters, “Leonard Cohen enjoying the spotlight,”
Vancouver Province
(28 December 1993) B7.

12
“Only in a country”: acceptance speech, JUNO Awards,
CBC
TV 21 March 1993.

13
“gritty realistic voice”: Allen Ginsberg, “Leonard Cohen”
Take This Waltz
93.

14
“there is nothing like”:
LC
in
Georgia Straight
(9 July 1993) 41.

15
“Leonard Cohen wrapped”:
Boston Globe
(26 December 1993) A10.

16
“I feel like a soldier”:
LC
in Paul Cantin, “Citizen Cohen,”
Ottawa Sun
(28 November 1993) 34.

17
“The implication is”:
Ottawa Sun
34.

18
“primitivist, protuberant”:
LC
in
Toronto Star
(21 November 1993) Bi.

19
“came up with”:
LC
in Siemerling,
Take This Waltz
154.

20
“could never get around to”:
LC
in Dev Sherlock, “Leonard Cohen,”
Musician Magazine
(November 1993) 7.

21
“select the pieces”:
LC
quoted by NB 2/18/94; 12/29/94.

22
“a book that was good”: J. Lozaw, “Leonard Cohen,”
Boston Rock
#141 (June 1994) 20.

23
“coherent”:
LC
5/11/94.

24
“I’m glad we ran off”: ES in.

25
“I’m glad we got over”: SM 161.

26
“major new book”: Doug Gibson to
JM
c
CL, 11
December 1989,
M
c
M
.

27
“reflections on his career”: DG to
JM
c
CL,
5 October 1
991, M
c
M
.

28
“I tried to eliminate”:
LC
in Lacey,
Globe and Mail
(12 November 1993) E1.

29
“it’s very agreeable”:
LC
in
Goldmine
56.

30
“I’m really not”:
LC
in Lozaw,
Boston Rock
20.

31
“the final pages”:
LC
RTE Guide 6
.

32
“the voice”:
LC,
RTE Guide 6
.

33
“This glum”: David Hiltbrand, “Cohen Live,”
People
42 (4 July 1994) [19].

34
“I only drink professionally”:
LC,
RTE Guide 6
.

35
“a Tibetan fairy tale”:
LC
12/29/94.

36
“I respect the book”:
LC,
“Morningside,”
CBC
Radio, 13 December 1994.

37
“the event itself”:
LC,
“Morningside,” 13 December 1994.

38
“I was ready”:
LC
12/29/94.

39
“I remember when”:
LC
12/29/94.

40
“On the path of loneliness”:
LC,
Globe and Mail
(4 June 1994) C10;
PEN Canadian Travel Anthology
, ed. Rooke 55.

41
“a ponderous mind”:
LC
in James Adams, “Dancing in the Tower of Song,”
Globe and Mail
(3 August 1995) A9.

42
“I am very happy”:
LC,
“Press Release,” A&M Records, August 1995.

43
“A quill in his teeth”: Tom Robbins, “Tom Robbins Considers the Man in the Tower,” TS [1] [3], [5] [10].

44
“In Search of Optimism”: Rod Usher, “In Search of Optimism,”
Time
(25 September 1995) 72.

45
“there is a crack”: “Anthem,” TF.

46
“when [love] can be assimilated”:
LC
in Anjelica Huston, “Leonard Cohen,”
Interview
(November 1995) 92, 90.

47
“Nowadays my only need”:
LC
in Merja Asikainen, “Leonard Cohen,”
Ilta-Sanomat
(14 October 1995) 14, in Finnish; for English summary see Jarkko Arjatsalo, “Everybody Knows,”
Intensity
9 (December 1995) [15].

48
“With him there’s no sense”:
LC
in James Adams, “Dancing to the Tower of Song,”
Globe and Mail
(3 August 1995) A 10.

49
“I love it, Man”:
LC
in
MOJO
(September 1994) 59.

50
“survival”:
LC
5/11/94.

51
“For me”:
LC
5/11/94.

52
“[Zen] has a kind of”:
LC,
“Morningside,” 13 December 1994.

53
“the crumbs of love”: “Avalanche,” SLH.

54
“I’ll rise up”: “My Honour,” SM 394.

55
“I find that my life”:
LC, BRAVO
TV, 31 August 1995.

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