Leonard Cohen Quotes
I won't comment on what Bob Dylan said, but I will comment on his receiving the Nobel Prize, which to me is like pinning a medal on Mount Everest for being the highest mountain.
Cohen, Leonard. Press Conference, Los Angeles, 13 Oct. 2016.
When accepting the prize and giving her Nobel Speech, she did not wear a hijab – the traditional headscarf. Conservative force in Iran were outraged and the President kept a low profile and did not make an immediate statement using this absurd statement to explain his silence. However when the furor died down, he then publicly took a different stance – See {615097} . These two quotations together illustrate the flip-flopping that politicians often resort to when they have a seriously divided constituency and they are trying to unify or at least not alienate one or the other side.
Leonard Norman Cohen CC GOQ was a Canadian singer-songwriter, poet, and novelist. His work explored religion, politics, isolation, depression, sexuality, loss, death and romantic relationships. Cohen was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He was invested as a Companion of the Order of Canada, the nation's highest civilian honour. In 2011, Cohen received one of the Prince of Asturias Awards for literature and the ninth Glenn Gould Prize.
