Various Positions (50 page)

60
“surprising how he sings”: Rob Mackie, “Romance at the Broncoburger,”
Street Life
(12–25 June 1976) 15.

61
“He told me about”:
LC,
prose fragments (1 August 1976),
LCA
.

62
“When I’m not plotting”:
LC,
prose fragments,
LCA
.

63
“life is not”:
LC
in Mackie,
Street Life
15.

64
“Bitterly”:
LC,
prose fragments, (2 August 1976),
LCA
.

65
“I wanted to go”:
LC,
Matrix
53.

66
“I came upon texts”:
LC,
Matrix
53.

67
“How do you”:
LC
reported by JM 8/26/94.

68
“As long as we”:
LC,
“Comme un Guerrier,”
Throat Cultureój
.

69
“very charming and hospitable”:
LC,
Songtalk
3: 2: 30.

70
“I thought the songs”:
LC,
Goldmine
19.

71
“He kept a lot of guns”:
LC,
Throat Culture
63.

72
“I love you, Leonard”:
LC,
Throat Culture
63.

73
“Dylan blew everybody’s”: Allen Ginsberg in
Songtalk
3: 2: 1.

74
“It’s direct and confessional”:
LC
in Kubernik, “The greatest ones never just sit it out once,”
Melody Maker
(26 November 1977) 9.

75
“the full flower”:
LC
in Twigg,
Georgia Straight
24.

76
“I know my work”: LC 5/11/94.

77
“The listener could have been”:
LC
in Hugh Seidman, “Unful’phil’ed: Cohen & Spector’s Looney Tunes,”
Crawdaddy
(February 1978) 20.

78
“capable of stunning”: Seidman,
Crawdaddy
20.

79
“I should get myself”:
LC,
“Comme un Guerrier,”
Throat Culture
64.

80
“Leonard Cohen’s doo-wop”:
Rolling Stone
(9 February 1978) 93.

81
“Leonard Cohen is for”:
Toronto Star
(19 November 1977) D5.

82
“Doyen of Doom meets”: Roy Carr, “Doyen of Doom meets Teen Tycoon …”
Melody Maker
(November 1977) 32.

83
“most significant step”: Ken Waxman, “Rebirth of a Ladies’ Man,”
Saturday Night
(March 1978) 61.

84
“either greatly flawed”:
Rolling Stone
(9 February 1978) 95.

85
“She took his much admired”: “Death of A Ladies’ Man,”
DLM
.

86
“every relationship”:
LC
in Stephen Williams, “The confessions of Leonard Cohen,”
Toronto Life
(February 1978) 49.

1
“I must say”: Anna Porter to
JM
c
CL
(10 November 1976),
M
c
M
.

2
“Leonard Cohen”: Lily Miller, (? November 1976),
M
c
M
.

3
“I suggest”: LM (? November 1976),
M
c
M
.

4
“because of language”: anon., (? June? 1977),
M
c
M
.

5
“His drawings”: LM,? June 1977,
M
c
M
.

6
“He feels very excited”: LM to
JM
c
CL,
10 August 1977,
M
c
M
.

7
“This is a grim development”:
JM
c
CL
to LM, 10 August 1977,
M
c
M
.

8
“pulled apart and uptight”:
JM
c
CL
to LM, 11 August 1977,
M
c
M
.

9
“says he is re-writing”:
JM
c
CL
to LM, 11 August 1977,
M
c
M
.

10
“He says he is writing”:
JM
c
CL
to LM, 11 August 1977,
M
c
M
.

11
“I DOUBT THAT”:
LC
to JMCCL, 18 August 1977, MCM.

12
LEONARD THERE IS NO SWEAT : JMCCL to
LC,
19 August 1977, MCM.

13
“where we are heading”:
JM
c
CL
to
LC,
11 October 1977,
M
c
M
.

14
“Christ, Leonard”:
JM
c
CL
in Sandra Martin, “Don’t be impatient: Leonard Cohen will let you see his new poems. Eventually,”
Saturday Night
(November 1977) 30.

15
“If Leonard were”:
JM
c
CL
in
Saturday Night
(November 1977) 35.

16
“bulk and elegance”: LM to
JM
c
CL,
7 July 1978,
M
c
M.
Miller had met with the elusive Cohen in Montreal on 6 July 1978 to solve many of the production issues.

17
“astonishing”: Sam Ajzenstat, “The ploy’s the thing,”
Books in Canada
(October 1978) 10.

18
“coldly received in all circles”:
LC
in
Goldmine
19.

19
“marriage is a monastery”:
LC
in Stephen Williams, “The Confessions of Leonard Cohen,”
Toronto Life
(February 1978) 61. In
DLM
Cohen writes “This is the monastery of marriage” (153).

20
“the hottest furnace”:
LC
in Williams,
Crawdaddy
(March 1975) 51.

21
“the quality of smoke”:
LC
in Jeani Read, “Leonard Cohen: A Much Bigger Man than He Appears,”
Vancouver Province
(27 October 1978) 15.

22
“Irving Layton”: “Dedication,” RS. “I owe my thanks to”: “Dedication,” RS.

23
“the pasture of this world”: Kakuan, “10 Bulls,” tr. Nyogen Senzaki and Paul Reps in Paul Reps,
Zen Flesh, Zen Bones
(Rutland, Vt.: Charles E. Tuttle & Co., 1957) 168.

24
“forms of integration”:
Zen Flesh, Zen Bones
184.

25
“an ideal musical idiom”: “Leonard Cohen—Reaching for the Right Idiom,” Janet Maslin,
NYT
(18 November 1978) E30.

26
“everybody on tour”:
LC
in Dorman 310.

27
“the confusion of seriousness”:
LC
in Dorman 311.

28
“He has the same”:
LC
in Stephen Godfrey, “A New Artistic Twist for Pied Piper Poet,”
Globe and Mail
(1 March 1980) El.

29
“I think it’s a beautiful”:
LC,
Globe and Mail
El.

30
“a classic, a grostesque masterpiece”:
LC,
Globe and Mail
El.

31
“destined to be”: John Monks in
The Australian
, Dorman 314–15.

32
“I never got out”:
LC
in Dorman 316.

33
“it didn’t seem”:
LC
in
Globe and Mail
El.

34
“The song seized me”:
LC
in Harry Rasky, “The Song of Leonard Cohen,”
CBC–tv,
1980.

35
“a new spirit in my work”:
LC,
“The Song of Leonard Cohen.”

36
“Genius”: IL, “The Song of Leonard Cohen.”

37
“the gift of anxiety”: IL, “The Song of Leonard Cohen.”

38
“I wandered away from you”:
LC,
tape (1980),
LCA
.

39
“a wandering monk”: Steve Sanfield 10/3/94.

40
“Zero is activity”: Joshu Sasaki Roshi, “Questions and Answers,”
The Great Celebration
(Los Angeles: Rinzai-ji, Inc. 1992) 64–65.

41
“As long as we see”: Roshi in Sanfield,
Zen and Hasidism
227.

42
“through realizing oneself”: Roshi, “The Nature of Zero,”
Zero
III: 12.

43
“everything is oneself”: Roshi,
Zero
13.

44
“is the possession of”: Roshi,
Zero
14.

45
“After you realize”: Roshi quoted by
LC
5/10/94.

46
“Roshi saw that I knew”:
LC
5/10/94.

47
“I am not a Buddhist”:
LC
in Dorman 316.

48
“for the truly lost”: NB 12/29/94.

49
“My father and mother”:
LC,
Hollywood Reporter
(25 October 1993),
LCA
.

50
“If you see”:
LC
in Christof Graf, “Cohen in Nazi-Land,”
Take This Waltz
94.

51
“One more star”:
LC
11/14/94.

52
“dig in”: LC 5/11/94.

53
“diligent application”:
LC
5/11/94.

54
“a combination of”:
LC
in Stephen Holden, “Leonard Cohen Brings Back His Blues,”
NYT
(3 May 1985) 22.

55
“reminiscent of the sixties”:
Variety
(22 May 1985) 26.

56
“a kind of carousel”:
LC
in Kate Daller, “I Am A Hotel,”
Starweek
(5–12 May 1984) 4.

57
“My personal life is such”: Daller,
Starweek
4.

58
“must assume”:
LC
5/11/94.

59
“I like to get up”:
LC
5/11/94.

60
“get down”:
LC,
[#13], BM, n.p.

61
“I was silenced”:
LC
in Alan Twigg, “Leonard Cohen,”
Strong Voices: Conversations with Fifty Canadian Writers
(Maderia Park, BC: Harbour Publishing, 1988) 45.

62
“the courage to write down”:
LC
in Twigg,
Strong Voices
46.

63
“inspired or it isn’t”: Mirolla,
Montreal Gazette
(12 May 1984) I 2.

64
“It came from an intense desire”:
LC,
“Comme un Guerrier,”
Throat Culture
64.

65
“Broken in the unemployment”: [#12], BM.

66
“It’s a tricky thing”:
LC,
Quill and Quire
(May 1984) 5.

67
“Everyone is in some kind of fix”:
LC,
Q & Q
(May 1984) 5.

68
“We’re such a hip age”:
LC
in Twigg,
Strong Voices
46.

69
“May it therefore”:
Mahzor for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur
(NY: Rabbinical Assembly, 1972) 407.

70
“I had no idea”:
LC,
Songtalk
3: 2: 28.

71
“I bought”:
LC
in Richard Guillatt, “Leonard Cohen”
The Magazine, Sunday Times
(12 December 1993) 64.

72
“I don’t know why”:
LC,
Sunday Times
64.

73
“The initial thing”: Liam Lacey, “Leonard in Winter,”
Globe and Mail
(27 November 1993) EI.

74
“I left everybody”: “The Law,” VP.

75
“We were locked”: “The Night Comes On,” VP.

76
“people who can’t sing”:
LC,
National Public Radio (1 May 1985).

77
“the tomb of the Unknown”:
LC
in Ashley Collie, “Leonard Cohen, Old Skin for the New Ceremony,”
Canadian Musician
VII (August 1985) 44.

78
“Sinner”:
LC,
Pete Fornetell, “Mixed Bag,”
WNEW (NYC),
5 May 1985.

79
“an old veteran:”
LC
in Jeffrey Ressner, “Leonard Cohen,”
Hollywood Reporter
(14 June 1985) 10.

1
“deep rescue”: Jennifer Warnes 5/13/94.

2
“Leonard made sure”:
JW
5/13/94.

3
“Leonard’s tours”:
JW
5/13/94.

4
“This is horrible”:
JW
5/13/94.

5
“
I
knew”:
JW
5/13/94.

6
“And I thank you”: “First We Take Manhattan,”
IYM
.

7
“It has been”:
LC
in Steve Lakes, “The Grocer of Despair, Leonard Cohen,”
Münchner Stadt Zeitung
14 (1987) 29.

8
“pry open”:
JW
in, “Songs from the Life of Leonard Cohen,” Omnibus, BBC TV 1988.

9
“the place where God and sex”:
JW
in Paul Zollo, “Of Sunlight & Earthquakes, Jennifer Warnes,”
Songtalk
3: 1 (1992) 17.

10
“Your most particular answer”:
LC,
Songtalk 3: 2: 26
.

11
“Because of Leonard’s facility”:
JW
,
Songtalk
3: 1: 18.

12
“Her voice”:
LC
in
JW
,
Songtalk
3: 1: 17.

13
“if you want to hear”:
LC
in
JW
,
Songtalk
3: 1: 17.

14
“Sharon showed it”:
LC
in Gregg Quill, “Cohen Finds the Humor in Being Taken Seriously,”
Toronto Star
(4 May 1988) 12.

15
“I thought we should do”:
LC,
Howell Llewellyn, “Cohen Goes Surreal in Spain,”
Toronto Star
(18 October 1986) G3.