The personal politics of honesty and truth by Leonard Cohen
About honesty and truth in songs by Leonard Cohen.
I guess that’s some kind of basic view I hold about the thing, that it doesn’t really matter what the singer is speaking of, it doesn’ really matter what the song is. There’s something I listen for in a singer’s voice and that’s some kind of truth. It may even be truth of deception, it may even be the truth of the scam, the truth of the hustle in the singer’s own presentation, but something is coming across that is true, and if that isn’t there the song dies. And the singer deserves to die too, and will, in time, die. So the thing that I listen for is that note of something big manifested that is beyond the singer’s control.
Source: Leonard Cohen: Hallelujah by Tim Footman
Image: Amazon UK
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