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A Broken Hallelujah: Rock and Roll, Redemption, and the Life of Leonard Cohen QUOTES

A Broken Hallelujah: Rock and Roll, Redemption, and the Life of Leonard Cohen QUOTES

1 " Perhaps no line of Cohen’s better captures the essence of his vision. He is telling his listeners what prophetically inclined rabbis have been telling theirs for thousands of years, namely that the world is a place of suffering, that no celestial cataclysm could ever change that, but that there are things here on this earth - art, love, friendship, kindness, music, sex - that have the power to redeem us. "

― Liel Leibovitz , A Broken Hallelujah: Rock and Roll, Redemption, and the Life of Leonard Cohen

2 " sometimes, if you’re sincere about what you have to say, if you want to communicate the full force of human emotions like grief and longing and gratitude, you try writing and then realize that your words are just as transient as you are, that they always fail you when you need them most, and that if they can’t serve their purpose and convey meaning perfectly—if they can’t reach the unborn and the dead—then they’re better off buried or burned.2 "

― Liel Leibovitz , A Broken Hallelujah: Rock and Roll, Redemption, and the Life of Leonard Cohen