Various Positions (48 page)

122
“most of the people”:
JM
c
CL
to George Renison, 21 April 1966,
M
c
M
.

123
“because you”:
JM
c
CL
to
LC,
9 May 1966,
M
c
M
.

124
“calling it”: JMCCL
,
to
LC,
9 May 1966, MCM.

125
“It is pleasant to think”: Robert Fulford, “Leonard Cohen, the TV Star,”
Toronto Star
(28 July 1966) 31.

126
“I thought it was time”: Fulford,
Toronto Star
(28 July 1966) 31.

127
“is no substitute”: “These notebooks,” ph 61.

128
“So you’re the kind”: “So you’re the kind of,” ph 11.

129
“How can I use the gull’s”: “The stars turn,” ph 40.

1
“bounded out of the room”: S. Djwa,
The Politics of the Imagination, A Life of F.R. Scott
290.

2
“Do you know”: Sid Katz 12/24/95.

3
“In hindsight”:
LC
in William Ruhlmann, “The Stranger Music of Leonard Cohen,”
Goldmine 19
(19 February 1993) 13.

4
“I felt very much”:
LC
in Williams,
Crawdaddy
(March 1975) 55.

5
“Once I hit”:
LC,
Goldmine 13
.

6
“rich in character”:
LC
5/11/94.

7
“iron regard”:
LC
5/11/94.

8
“on a lot of involuntary trips”:
LC,
“Idiot’s Delight,” 6/13/93.

9
“Once upon a time”:
LC
concert tape, Amsterdam, 30 October 1980.

10
“Are you looking for someone?”:
LC,
Oslo Norway, 2/13/88.

11
“She had this deep”:
LC,
“Idiot’s Delight,” 6/13/93.

12
“I finally got it right”:
LC,
“Idiot’s Delight,” 6/13/93.

13
“KILL COOL”:
LC
in
Mojo
(September 1994) 58.

14
“professionaly tortured”: vf 3/2/95.

15
“I am so impatient”:
LC,
Journal (March 1967)
LCA
.

16
“Everything serves his work”: Yafa Lerner 12/17/94

17
“the perfect Aryan ice queen”:
LC
in Scott Cohen, “Leonard Cohen,”
Yakety Yak
(NY: Simon and Schuster, 1994) 164.

18
“I saw this girl”:
LC,
October 1974, in D. Thompson,
Beyond the Velvet Underground
(London: Omnibus, 1989) 29.

19
“macabre face”: David Antrim in 1966 in Thompson,
Beyond
30.

20
“the screeching ugliness”: Paul Morrissey in Thompson,
Beyond
31.

21
“secret marriage”: Richard Goldstein in Thompson,
Beyond
17.

22
“in those days”:
LC
in Thompson,
Beyond
29.

23
“I was lighting candles”:
LC,
Mojo
(September 1994) 58.

24
“Terrible day”:
LC,
Journal, 15 March 1967,
LCA
.

25
“poet maudit ca. 1890”: LC, Journal, 15 March 1967,
LCA
.

26
“It’s a pity if”:
LC,
prose fragment,
UT
[1].

27
“the creator of the Black Photograph”:
LC,
prose fragment,
UT
[1].

28
“My work among other things”:
LC,
prose fragment,
UT
[2].

29
“perplexed by her conversation”:
LC,
“Comme un Guerrier,”
Throat Culture
61.

30
“Completely disregarded”:
LC
in Robin Pike, “September 15th 1974”
Zig Zag
,
The Rock Magazine
5 (October 1974) 48.

31
“I put my hand on”:
Mojo
(September 1994) 59.

32
“Once in my room”:
LC
in Thompson 29.

33
“She said she loved”:
LC
in
Goldmine
13.

34
“I’m really in the middle”:
LC
in “The John Hammond Years,” CBC Radio, October 1986.

35
“Roman Catholicism, Buddhism, L.S.D.”:
LC
in Gaby Goliger, “Leonard Cohen,”
Echo 1
(16 December 1966) 13.

36
“just speak from the center”: David Kaufman, one of the three visiting students, reporting Cohen’s statement 1/12/96.

37
“You got it, Leonard”:
LC
in “The John Hammond Years,”
CBC
.

38
“hypnotic effect”: John Hammond, “The John Hammond Years,”
CBC
.

39
“Leonard set”: John Hammond, “The John Hammond Years,”
CBC
.

40
“Leonard, we know”: Walter Yetnikoff in
Goldmine
20

41
“a compassionate lapse”:
LC,
“The John Hammond Years,”
CBC
.

42
“Leonard always needed”: John Hammond, “The John Hammond Years,”
CBC
.

43
“pillows of sound”: John Hammond in
Goldmine
14.

44
“linear, should be smooth”:
LC
in
Goldmine
15.

45
“The songs and arrangements”:
LC, SLC
.

46
“unguessable”: Buffy Sainte-Marie, “Leonard Cohen, His Songs,”
Sing Out
17 (1967) 16.

47
“It’s like losing”: Sainte-Marie,
Sing Out
16.

48
“lost in New York City”:
LC,
“Notes,”
BLC
.

49
“What do you think?”:
LC
11/14/94.

50
“I sort of felt”:
LC
in Jack Hafferkamp, “Ladies and Gents, Leonard Cohen,”
Rolling Stone
(1972) rpt. in
Songs of Love and Hate
(New York: Amsco Publishing, 1972) [2].

51
“the stories of the street”: “Stories of the Street,”
SLC
.

52
“It was the only time”:
LC,
Mojo
(September 1994) 59.

53
“our most sophisticated singer”:
LC
in Rowland,
Musician
(1988) 98. Dylan as Cohen:
Yakety Yak
13.

54
“Well, I think”:
LC
in Adrienne Clarkson, “Leonard Cohen, A Monster of Love,”
Take This Waltz 2
5.

55
“pace runners”: Joni Mitchell 8/26/94.

56
“the extension of our friendship”:
LC
11/14/94.

57
“They showed me the film”:
LC,
Yakety Yak
165.

58
“James Joyce is not dead”: “Cohen Overwhelms Listeners With Prose, Poetry, and Song,”
Introspectrum, Buffalo State University
(11 April 1967) [1].

59
“I cannot sing unless”: Sid Katz 12/24/95.

60
“guitar playing”: Sid Katz 12/24/95.

61
“None of you guys”: Marty Machat,
Goldmine
11.

62
“strictly an underground celebrity”: William Kloman, “I’ve Been on the Outlaw Scene Since 15,”
NYT
(28 January 1968) D21.

63
“on the verge of”:
NYT
(28 January 1968) D21.

64
“When I see a woman”:
NYT
(28 January 1968) D21.

65
“I wish the women”:
NYT
(28 January 1968) D21.

66
“have a pathological tone”:
NYT
(28 January 1968) D22.

67
“rediscover the cruxcifixion”:
NYT
(28 January 1968) D22.

68
“on the alienation scale”: Donal Henahan, “Alienated Young Man Creates Some Sad Music,”
NYT
(28 January 1968) II: 21. “Pity”:
Maclean’s
(February 1968) 72.

69
“Cohen suffers”: Richard Goldstein, “Beautiful Creep,”
Village Voice
(27 December 1967) 18.

70
“the environment”:
LC
in Alastair Pirrie, “Cohen Regrets,”
New Musical Express
(10 March 10973)
66
.

71
“I never married”:
LC,
Musician
98.

72
“The thing died very quickly”:
LC,
Musician
98.

73
“What is Scientology?”: JM 8/26/94.

74
“Did you ever go clear?”: “Famous Blue Raincoat,”
SLH
.

75
“My new laws”: “Why I Happen to be Free,” PH 60.

1
“had catlike characters”: Lailios to author 9/12/94.

2
“God, when I see”:
LC
in Barbara Amiel, “Leonard Cohen says that to All the Girls,”
Maclean’s
(18 September 1978) 58.

3
“I fear we are to be”:
LC
5/11/94.

4
“Leonard, don’t say”:
LC
5/11/94.

5
“to make us laugh”:
he, People
13 (14 January 1980) 57.

6
“Diamonds in the Mine”:
SLH

7
“I moved there”:
LC,
“Comme un Guerrier,”
Throat Culture 62
.

8
“As long as someone”: Suzanne Elrod,
People
(14 January 1980) 57.

9
“I leave to several”:
LC,
“The Pro,”
Nashville Notebook of 1969
,
LCA;
also see “The Pro,” DLM 187.

10
“What do you want?”: Bob Johnston 10/29/94.

11
“a musical bodyguard”: Charlie Daniels 11/3/94.

12
“to make his voice”: BJ 10/29/94.

13
“Leonard has always had”: BJ 10/29/94.

14
“The voice is uncertain”:
LC,
“Notes,”
BLC
.

15
“created an atmosphere”:
LC,
Goldmine
16.

16
“read the Zohar”:
LC,
Journal [1969],
LCA
.

17
“Sometimes I need you naked”: “You Know Who I Am,” SFR.

18
“seems to return me”:
LC,
“Notes,”
BLC
.

19
“Like a bird”: “Like a Bird on the Wire,”
SFR
.

20
“I would stare out”:
LC
in Paul Zollo, “Leonard Cohen, Inside the Tower of Song,”
SongTalk
3; 2 (1993): 31.

21
“three guys”:
SongTalk
3: 2: 31.

22
“Who are you?”:
LC
in Paul Williams
Crawdaddy
(March 1975) 52.

23
“Forget everything I said”:
Crawdaddy
52.

24
“not only serious”: Vincent Canby, “McCabe and Mrs. Miller,”
NYT
(25 June 1971) 17.

25
“delivered sotto voce”: John Simon, “An Appalling Plague has been Loosed on Our Films,”
NYT (19
September 1971) 11: 13.

26
“like Villon with frostbite”:
Time
(25 January 1993) 57.

27
“Show me”: Steve Sanfield, “The Inner Passage,”
Zen and Hasidism
, ed. Harold Heifetz (Wheaton, Ill.” The Theosophical Publishing House, 1978) 223.

28
“Nice song”:
LC
in Sanfield,
Zen and Hasidism
233.

29
“What makes Leonard Cohen”: Columbia Records advertisement 1969.

30
“May I respectfully request”:
Vancouver Province
(7 May 1969) 14.

31
“would not conform to”:
Vancouver Province
(7 May 1969) 14. Also see “Quebec Writers Take Literary Lion’s Share,”
Montreal Star
(22 April 1969) 22.

32
“C’mere. I want to talk”: Mordecai Richler in Alan Twigg, “The Gospel According to Leonard Cohen,”
Georgia Straight
12 (10–17 November 1978) 6; Sheldon Tietlbaum, “Leonard Cohen, Pain Free,”
Los Angeles Times Magazine
(5 April 1992) 22.

33
“get behind Canada then”:
LC
12/29/94.

34
“I have no idea”:
JM
c
CL
7/23/94.

35
“MARITA”: SP 239.

36
“Go your own way”: Hugh Whitney Morrison, at one time married to Marita La Fleche, 11/14/93.

37
“a modern housewife’s lament”:
NYT
(29 September 1968) 21.

38
“Some were songs first”: K. Murphy and G. Gross, “Leonard Cohen,”
NYT
(13 April 1909) VI: 36.

39
“When poetry strays”: Ezra Pound quoted by
LC
in H. Kubernik and J. Pierce, “Cohen’s New Skin,”
Melody Maker
(1 March 1975) 41.

40
“Leonard Cohen: the poet as hero”:
Saturday Night
(June 1969).

41
“He acts taller”: Jack Batten, “The Poet as Hero Pt.
1
”
SN (1969)
24.

42
“a betrayal of mankind”: “Comme un Guerrier,”
Throat Culture 62
.

43
“I swore by the sunlight”: ES 11.

44
“Seig Heil!”:
LC
2/17/94.

45
“captivating self abasement”: Canadian Press wire story, 13 May 1970.

46
“Word gets around”: Tony Palmer, “A Modern Troubadour,”
Observer
(7 June) 1970.

47
“Mr. Cohen sings”: Michael Jahn, “Cohen and ‘Army’ Sing in Forest Hills,”
NYT
(27 July 1970) 18.

48
“If you don’t like”:
LC
2/17/94.