Much to learn from Leonard Cohen, switch your dial down,make whatever changes you need to in order to live the life you know you deserve. Treat people kind along the journey and peace will come.
What comes across to me in this interview is the wisdom and humbleness of the man, a lot of people have made this comment.He was amazingly successfull yet at the same time was humble and meek.Mix this in with his bubbly personality and well he's an amazing guy who lead a full, rich and varied life, God Bless You Leonard, everybody mourns this loss.I would have loved to have met him in person. Rob
What an amazing person he was , I was listening to his music since the 60s ,and have been to several concerts, which were amazing. RIP LC 🙏 from a long time fan.👍👏👏👏❤😎🇮🇪.
Love your soul..that you saw him more than once sounds like special blessing. I found him a couple of years before he went back to God. And I am in love with him completely. I can imagine him standing quite close to me and I can feel the electricity that will be going begin us.... be
Even whilst he’s just talking , his voice is so relaxing and soothing. He always comes across as a sincere gentle guy, so sad he’s gone a great loss indeed ❤️
I think Leonard was born gifted with the ability to express emotions, mixed with the every day life he witnessed, or experienced, and put to words in a way that makes his listeners think. Calmness in poetry that brings to light our everyday lives we fail to see and recognize until someone makes us take notice. Walk outside in the morning when all is quiet but the birds. They make you listen. That's what Leonard Cohen reminds me of.
Unfortunately, most men fall into less than five stereotypes. They are push-button predictable, heavily biased, anti-intellecual, as interesting as a flat television character. Which is wgy society judges men primarily on what they earn - because if you take away their earbing power, they are quickly disposed of. As a result, men are becoming increasingly boring and marginalized. Women are clearly ascendent, less given to knee jerk reactions, with infinitely diverse personalities. Mr. Cohen is interesting because he does not care about tribal acceptance and has faced down far bigger adversaries than the opinions of others. He is a classic artist, whose most recurring themes are truth and beauty. And he has gone through the crucible of depression. Though at great professional cost, losing over a decade of productivity, and unknown personal cost. While he pulls up short of declaring himself cured - he did return to leading a even keeled, multi-dicipline, artistic life. Anyone who is bi-polar would take the productive return their carreer as a victory. What makes men like Mr. Cohen so compelling is that they have nothing to prove. The work stands for itself. Muhammad Ali once said, "I'm not going to be what other people expect me to be, and I'm not afraid to be myself. ,
But until we get there we will have to go it alone.... While Leonard Cohen was alive, a kindred spirit extended a helping hand to one in need and to one who echoed his artistic, poetic, emotional, physical and religious voice; a father- figure in need of his mother and father himself. He found them in his lovers, poetry and music; we find them in his loving smile.
I'm sorry that I pretty much knew nothing of Leonard Cohen prior to being turned on to this 3-part interview by a musician friend of mine. The man is one deep well... I'm going to have to go back and rewatch these interview segments after I've had so time to consider the thoughts Mr. Cohen puts out. He seems very relaxed here and at ease with himself, who he's become as he's developed as a person. His honesty is certainly refreshing in this day and age. Personally I'm not as fond of his music as I am of his poetry and his philosophies... which I like very much. Pretty easy to see why the ladies would be attracted to a man such as this.
אני אוהב את לאונרד כהן. אדם גדול צנוע השירים שלו גדולים אני כל נסיעה שמוע אותו ושכוח את הדרך .הקול שלו מיוחד ולא משעמים לשמוע אותו בלי הפסקה חבל שהלך לנו לפני הזמן הפסדנו אדם גדול. לא נשכח אותו לעולם
LC is always brilliant but there is something about the interviews conducted by Stina Dabrowski. She is a great interviewer but there is also some chemistry here. LC seems relaxed and is allowed to take his time.
Oh yeah, caught the chemistry right away!😉 Even as he aged, I can easily understand women being very attracted to this man. Enjoyed observing the interaction between these two.
Leonard is still on the road somehow,Dylan fighting for more space,and Willie on the road once again,god bless them all for a centanni or even as they say in the old book 120 thanks again Jesse cohen
Only one thing she might have gotten wrong -- Leonard has always had a deep, mordant sense of humor. I've seen interviews he did many years ago, when he was still a young wunderkind poet in Canada, that were drop-down-and-roll-around-on-the-floor hilarious. He could've been a gifted stand-up comedian.
I agree.. I know the music can get heavy and he seemed like a man deeply in touch with his emotions.. but like you’re saying, I feel he was a happy go lucky guy who always had jokes.. either way the TALENT is undeniable, we definitely have had some gems come up here in this Freezing cold paradise 🥶
I would be very grateful if somebody tells me what Cohen tells at 15:07 ... "there was no longer a religious xxx" i am not a native speaker, and i did not get the word. thank you very much in advance.
...Realized there was no longer a religious seeker. It's not so much that I got what I was looking for but the search itself dissolved." This is was is commonly known as enlightenment or liberation i.e. The realization that what has been sought is nothing other then what already is. In other words we are already what we seek- This is it.
Lovely and wise guy. But wrong about one thing. The sense of dissatisfaction he talks of has at it's root the illusion of the separate self. This IS possible to lose. I know because it happens for me and almost certainly for you too. Have you not ever been so involved in something (music, a beautiful sunset etc etc) that you forgot the feeling of being an observer observing something and only the experience remains? Why do people love to watch TV so much? Because it engenders this experience. Sadly it also brainwashes you into a certain believe system but that's another story. The "enlightenment" that Buddhists talk about so much is when this state becomes permanent.
+Snakewhisperer (Sorry, but i'm not a native speaker) Yeah, and that "permanence" is what you can't get; in other words, you can disolve your ego, but not forever (and if you could, you would suffer terrible neurologic diseases). When the buddhism talk of "enlighntment", I don't think they speak of that particular permanent state (i once heard a very famous monk saying that he still feels angry, sadness, etc...), but rather something more "existential". Once they disolve their ego (entirely, not in part like we all do), they take conscious of what they are (nothing really), and what suffering is (nothing really) compared with the "being", the "whole", what the hinduists call "atman" (don't know the buddhist word), and that consciousness, is the "nirvana". There's a tale of Borges that ilustrate this very well: "The writting of the god". A magician in jail found the lenguage of God, and got the power to do whatever he please, but, after feel the reality of the whole universe, he discover that he's nothing, and that there's no sense in escaping from the prison.
Leonard Cohen's Hallajuhah is about David revealing the Biblical words " Flesh is Weak but the Spirit willing " God called David " Worm "for the weakness of his flesh, nevertheless said "a man after my own heart for his Spirit, The 1993 Classic aha, aha, aha Hallajuhah in the Malayalam language -- The laughter of God - Father Son Holy Spirit,
Can't help but feel his similarities of features of the following characters... 4:02 Adam Sandler 7:00 Richard Boone 8:56 Telly Savalas 13:30 Dustin Hoffman Al Pacino, Leonard Nimoy, Steven Van Zandt... -8519
His roshi "cured the illusion that I was sick...he cured the illusion that I needed his teaching...." Could have save a lot of car-fare with an hour of listening to Alan Watts.
Those who feel they need to share their hatred always feel their intrusions are enlightening, that they shared something others walk away from feeling better. Obviously LOVE has never touched your hearts. Go somewhere else with your interpretations that mean nothing.
Пересмотрела ещё раз это суперинтервью. Вот где учиться всем русским бездарным журналистам как надо брать интервью. Но для этого нужны мозги и соответствующее воспитание Не научишь....
Q☕🎓 what is on a woman her mind, same thing as on a men his mind. 🎓 Werelddiploma 📜 years never mis the real meaning of Life as what to live hold at exist Thank you for everything you hold for the best to rest, always in my ⚖ spiritual soul, that always stay to stand up-high😇☕🎓
"He cured the illusion that I needed his teachings." This man was so brilliant.
It doesn’t feel like he’s gone. His spirit in his interviews is so big and beautiful he feels like a timeless kind of presence
real artists are really honest.Heres one
He was so modest in a refreshing way. And delightfully charming.
I am a musician and a friend suggested I listen to Leonard Cohen and not a day goes by without listening to his angelic voice 💞💯💖
Much to learn from Leonard Cohen, switch your dial down,make whatever changes you need to in order to live the life you know you deserve. Treat people kind along the journey and peace will come.
this man is honest enough to confess what he knows and doesn't know.
What comes across to me in this interview is the wisdom and humbleness of the man, a lot of people have made this comment.He was amazingly successfull yet at the same time was humble and meek.Mix this in with his bubbly personality and well he's an amazing guy who lead a full, rich and varied life, God Bless You Leonard, everybody mourns this loss.I would have loved to have met him in person.
Rob
I love listening to what he has to say, to his voice wish I had met him. May your spirit go on and on
A singer, poet, philosopher and a very, very, very good person. Thank you so much, dear Mr. Cohen. Mercy is being emanated from your lotus face.
Such a great soul
Love, love, love the way Leonard answers that very first question and turns things completely around. What a guy!
Everything he says somehow makes me rethink some personal question I have. It's like he speaks directly and personally to everyone who listens to him.
That is a deep statement... well played.
What an amazing person he was , I was listening to his music since the 60s ,and have been to several concerts, which were amazing. RIP LC 🙏 from a long time fan.👍👏👏👏❤😎🇮🇪.
Love your soul..that you saw him more than once sounds like special blessing. I found him a couple of years before he went back to God.
And I am in love with him completely. I can imagine him standing quite close to me and I can feel the electricity that will be going begin us....
be
O.22 seconds.....magical moment of natural humour and chemistry between a man and a woman...PRICELESS, A GEM OF A MOMENT.
Miss you already big guy.
Leonard cohen vous êtes le meilleur chanteur a la voix d or comme votre fils a
Adan cohen félicitations j ai 60 ans et suis a fond dans vos chnsons
Even whilst he’s just talking , his voice is so relaxing and soothing. He always comes across as a sincere gentle guy, so sad he’s gone a great loss indeed ❤️
I feel the same his voice seems to touch my soul , heart or some part of me. I love you Mr Cohen
My seven year old son said "This is how God must sound like" after listening to You want it darker.
His voice is so deep yet soft and soothing.
He’s buried in a Jewish ✡️ cemetery “
he got it right; ''we find our way out, once we understand that, there is no way out''
He cured the illusion that I needed his teaching ..priceless statment
wonderful interview. thank you for posting it
Listening to Mr. Cohen’s voice is like getting a soul massage.
His beauty lies in his honesty
Thank you for posting this interview. The interviewer has a deft touch and listening to this makes me want to be more.
How I wish I had known of you as I was growing older. I am 83 and you have recently come into my life.
Not seen before! Great interview -Leonard lives on !!
I think Leonard was born gifted with the ability to express emotions, mixed with the every day life he witnessed, or experienced, and put to words in a way that makes his listeners think. Calmness in poetry that brings to light our everyday lives we fail to see and recognize until someone makes us take notice. Walk outside in the morning when all is quiet but the birds. They make you listen. That's what Leonard Cohen reminds me of.
Beautiful Man - so kind and generous with his words
This 65 year old, SCREAMS, "OH WHAT A MAN"! If I met someone like him, MY LIFE WOULD HAVE BEEN DIFFERENT!
Unfortunately, most men fall into less than five stereotypes. They are push-button predictable, heavily biased, anti-intellecual, as interesting as a flat television character. Which is wgy society judges men primarily on what they earn - because if you take away their earbing power, they are quickly disposed of.
As a result, men are becoming increasingly boring and marginalized. Women are clearly ascendent, less given to knee jerk reactions, with infinitely diverse personalities.
Mr. Cohen is interesting because he does not care about tribal acceptance and has faced down far bigger adversaries than the opinions of others.
He is a classic artist, whose most recurring themes are truth and beauty. And he has gone through the crucible of depression. Though at great professional cost, losing over a decade of productivity, and unknown personal cost. While he pulls up short of declaring himself cured - he did return to leading a even keeled, multi-dicipline, artistic life. Anyone who is bi-polar would take the productive return their carreer as a victory.
What makes men like Mr. Cohen so compelling is that they have nothing to prove. The work stands for itself.
Muhammad Ali once said, "I'm not going to be what other people expect me to be, and I'm not afraid to be myself.
,
Very Well said!
If one cannot learn from listening to this man then one is closed
The best interview I ever heard! ❤️❤️❤️
An absolute gentleman.
the REAL "most interesting man in the world"
truth!
B
Ich liebe seine Musik
S
Do you know everyman on earth to claim this
Wow when I got to know Leonard’s music I lived in Europe working there and he was at a monastery at that time .
Wow
Such an examined soul!
Peace Leonard!
luv this guy...
Hi Liam,very good,l read one of his books. ❤
Very insightful man.
Thanks
Maravilloso Leonard Cohen 👏👏👏
LC’s song, Night Comes On, changed my life forever.
Hes got a very calm presence
Very good interview; she gets to the core.
She was tacky more than once. Disrespectful too on film.
fantastic
Sigh. What a heart he has. An honest heart. ❤️
He still has that honest heart. You never really die
After David Bowie's and then Leonard Cohen's departure the afterworld seemed to become a more friendlier destination.
lol. bowie went to hell and that is never a good destination regardless of what fool is there.
But until we get there we will have to go it alone....
While Leonard Cohen was alive, a kindred spirit extended a helping hand to one in need and to one who echoed his artistic, poetic, emotional, physical and religious voice; a father- figure in need of his mother and father himself. He found them in his lovers, poetry and music; we find them in his loving smile.
@@josefwolff5431 why do you think Bowie went to hell?
@@davidlockwood7178 aint it obvious? he was an evil fuck. plus just his bad music was enough to send him to hell..
@@conniewolf7300 literally God did.
The man was a genius....
Love that. He cures the illusion that you are sick.
Such charm
I'm sorry that I pretty much knew nothing of Leonard Cohen prior to being turned on to this 3-part interview by a musician friend of mine. The man is one deep well... I'm going to have to go back and rewatch these interview segments after I've had so time to consider the thoughts Mr. Cohen puts out. He seems very relaxed here and at ease with himself, who he's become as he's developed as a person. His honesty is certainly refreshing in this day and age. Personally I'm not as fond of his music as I am of his poetry and his philosophies... which I like very much. Pretty easy to see why the ladies would be attracted to a man such as this.
Songwriter extraordinaire! 😘🎶💃🏻❤️
אני אוהב את לאונרד כהן. אדם גדול צנוע השירים שלו גדולים אני כל נסיעה שמוע אותו ושכוח את הדרך .הקול שלו מיוחד ולא משעמים לשמוע אותו בלי הפסקה חבל שהלך לנו לפני הזמן הפסדנו אדם גדול. לא נשכח אותו לעולם
Fascinating man!!
love n peace xxx
I love his sageness , can't be a word cos of the red squiggly line underneath
I belueve the word you are looking for is "sagacity".
I wish someone intelligent would have interviewed him. He was so full of wisdom !!!
Absolute gentleman. 😍❤️
LC is always brilliant but there is something about the interviews conducted by Stina Dabrowski. She is a great interviewer but there is also some chemistry here. LC seems relaxed and is allowed to take his time.
Oh yeah, caught the chemistry right away!😉 Even as he aged, I can easily understand women being very attracted to this man. Enjoyed observing the interaction between these two.
Yes, my old daddy would heartily agree.
He was so damn sexy. A true genius in all ways. rip to the absolute greatest.
SerenityNow81 I thought I was the only one that thought he was sexy!
Nothing more sexy in a man than a genuine humility × humour × kindness
What a man....
RIP master and maestro!
Leonard is still on the road somehow,Dylan fighting for more space,and Willie on the road once again,god bless them all for a centanni or even as they say in the old book 120 thanks again Jesse cohen
I really love this interview with Stina and Leonard Cohen
hmm...lovely man
Leonard Cohen spoke so much sense! He was very profound! A kind of Profit!
I also believe he was our beloved prophet of modern times
@@Fayefreeman Yes indeed!
My Hero forever.❤❤❤❤❤❤
Civilisation, of which we have precious little today.
WoW So nice
.
You go your way
I´ll go your way too
Love you Jack
R.I.P.
you were the best
Good bye, master.
Only one thing she might have gotten wrong -- Leonard has always had a deep, mordant sense of humor. I've seen interviews he did many years ago, when he was still a young wunderkind poet in Canada, that were drop-down-and-roll-around-on-the-floor hilarious. He could've been a gifted stand-up comedian.
link?
I agree.. I know the music can get heavy and he seemed like a man deeply in touch with his emotions.. but like you’re saying, I feel he was a happy go lucky guy who always had jokes.. either way the TALENT is undeniable, we definitely have had some gems come up here in this Freezing cold paradise 🥶
He could also have been a priest.
He was so gifted.
I would be very grateful if somebody tells me what Cohen tells at 15:07 ... "there was no longer a religious xxx" i am not a native speaker, and i did not get the word. thank you very much in advance.
"Some kind of relaxation overtook me when I realized I was no longer a religious seeker."
...Realized there was no longer a religious seeker. It's not so much that I got what I was looking for but the search itself dissolved." This is was is commonly known as enlightenment or liberation i.e. The realization that what has been sought is nothing other then what already is. In other words we are already what we seek- This is it.
kenneth madden Thanks alot.
Bigwave2003 Thank you!
rip..
kiitos
"Where are they now when we need them?"
"Whiskey? Yeah, now we talking. Let's get down to business kids."
Интервьюерша достойна наивысшей похвалы!
Just discovered Mr Cohen,love the popular problems,please recommend his best albums that has a similar vibe to popular problems, thanks
+The picture of an eye If you haven't done so already, check out The Future. My favourite Mr Cohen album with songs so relevant to today
Thank you
Gente a poucos dias encontrei essa joia rara e me apaixonei por ele. Deus ressuscita esse homem só pra ele saber que eu o amo! Vacinada por ele!
Eu quis dizer facinada, encantada, apaixonada por ele.
Boogie on down Leonard!Too funny!
I want to interviewed by her.
Revelatory insights on the human condition.
Amazing it is so difficult to find a devout woman ,or who loves and stays with man and vice vers: ,But
he /she is there ,
The interviewer bears a resemblance to Agnetha from ABBA...I have been listening to Leonard's music since the beginning....
Lovely and wise guy.
But wrong about one thing.
The sense of dissatisfaction he talks of has at it's root the illusion of the separate self.
This IS possible to lose. I know because it happens for me and almost certainly for you too.
Have you not ever been so involved in something (music, a beautiful sunset etc etc) that you forgot the feeling of being an observer observing something and only the experience remains?
Why do people love to watch TV so much? Because it engenders this experience. Sadly it also brainwashes you into a certain believe system but that's another story.
The "enlightenment" that Buddhists talk about so much is when this state becomes permanent.
+Snakewhisperer (Sorry, but i'm not a native speaker) Yeah, and that "permanence" is what you can't get; in other words, you can disolve your ego, but not forever (and if you could, you would suffer terrible neurologic diseases). When the buddhism talk of "enlighntment", I don't think they speak of that particular permanent state (i once heard a very famous monk saying that he still feels angry, sadness, etc...), but rather something more "existential". Once they disolve their ego (entirely, not in part like we all do), they take conscious of what they are (nothing really), and what suffering is (nothing really) compared with the "being", the "whole", what the hinduists call "atman" (don't know the buddhist word), and that consciousness, is the "nirvana".
There's a tale of Borges that ilustrate this very well: "The writting of the god". A magician in jail found the lenguage of God, and got the power to do whatever he please, but, after feel the reality of the whole universe, he discover that he's nothing, and that there's no sense in escaping from the prison.
an icon
The glasses 😅🥰
Leonard Cohen's Hallajuhah is about David revealing the Biblical words " Flesh is Weak but the Spirit willing " God called David " Worm "for the weakness of his flesh, nevertheless said "a man after my own heart for his Spirit,
The 1993 Classic aha, aha, aha Hallajuhah in the Malayalam language -- The laughter of God - Father Son Holy Spirit,
Was there ever a more conscious lyricist than Leonard Cohen?
funny how he puts sunglasses on to read.
Sounds like Lobsang Rampas monastery experiences in Tibet!
Can't help but feel his similarities of features of the following characters...
4:02 Adam Sandler
7:00 Richard Boone
8:56 Telly Savalas
13:30 Dustin Hoffman
Al Pacino, Leonard Nimoy, Steven Van Zandt...
-8519
Comes down from the monastery and spark up a cigarette...
His roshi "cured the illusion that I was sick...he cured the illusion that I needed his teaching...." Could have save a lot of car-fare with an hour of listening to Alan Watts.
Im kind of surprised that at the end he sais that he didnt suffer from depression ? 🤔
What a Guy ! Hope he is not putting on an act ! Smile
Those who feel they need to share their hatred always feel their intrusions are enlightening, that they shared something others walk away from feeling better. Obviously LOVE has never touched your hearts. Go somewhere else with your interpretations that mean nothing.
Пересмотрела ещё раз это суперинтервью.
Вот где учиться всем русским бездарным журналистам как надо брать интервью. Но для этого нужны мозги и соответствующее воспитание Не
научишь....
First guy to go Monk Mode
this is the MAN, not dylan, who should've gotten the Nobel prize; we live in a corrupt and stupid world;
Q☕🎓 what is on a woman her mind, same thing as on a men his mind.
🎓 Werelddiploma 📜 years never mis the real meaning of Life as what to live hold at exist
Thank you for everything you hold for the best to rest, always in my ⚖ spiritual soul, that always stay to stand up-high😇☕🎓