Photo: Taken by Christof Graf – Stuttgart 2018<\/p>\n
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\u201cThat\u2019s What I Like About The Guy \u2013 There\u2019s No Whining\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n SOURCE:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n An ABC In Concert video featured Leonard Cohen (as host), Mick Jagger, & Mother Love Bone. The video began with Leonard talking about Mick Jagger.\u00a0 (Sometimes you can find the clip on YOUTUBE)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Yes, it is true that a lot of people burn themselves out. A lot of people die, especially in rock and roll. But on the other hand, there are people who continue to perfect their art. Curiously enough \u2014 and this is probably a very unpopular example \u2014 I think the last album by Mick Jagger [Wandering Spirit], who is a figure who is not really taken seriously\u2026 That\u2019s a guy who is somehow not considered to be at the cutting edge of his own spirit any longer. Somehow, he has dissolved into the celebrity that he so ferociously courted. But you know, I had occasion to look carefully at the lyrics of his last album [Wandering Spirit]. They\u2019re really quite surprising. They\u2019re pretty good. It\u2019s been a long time since I\u2019ve turned to Mick Jagger for spiritual information! I wanted to see what Mick Jagger was doing these days, \u2019cause all you hear of him is he shows up with a beautiful woman here or there, or he\u2019s having marital problems, or he\u2019s signing a $60 million contract. It seems not to have anything to do with what we\u2019re interested in. But when I looked at that album, he says, \u2018I\u2019ve seen a whole lot of shit, I\u2019ve seen more than most guys.\u2019 He\u2019s speaking the truth. He says, \u2018I really have been on those mountains. I really have had dinner with those kings and princes and slept with those beautiful women. And now, from the point of view of this experience. I\u2019m asking you: Is there nothing beyond the kisses? Is there anything better than fucking? I\u2019d like to know because it isn\u2019t very good.\u2019 He\u2019s saying something that is heavy and beautiful, and he\u2019s saying it beautifully. And then \u2026 Nobody listening. You know it\u2019s just like another little Mick Jagger record. And it\u2019s cool. It\u2019s OK. We don\u2019t have to worry about the guy, either. We know he\u2019s a billionaire, and we know he has these women. Putting all these things aside, which is difficult to do in a case like Mick Jagger, you see that this guy\u2019s still on this trip at the age of 40 odd.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n SOURCE:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n From Maverick Spirit: Leonard Cohen by Jim O\u2019Brien. B-Side Magazine: August\/September 1993.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Photo: Taken by Christof Graf – Stuttgart 2018 \u201cThat\u2019s What I Like About The Guy \u2013 There\u2019s No Whining\u201d SOURCE: An ABC In Concert video featured Leonard Cohen (as host), Mick Jagger, & Mother Love Bone. The video began with Leonard talking about Mick Jagger.\u00a0 (Sometimes you can find the clip on YOUTUBE) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22371,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allgemein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22345"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22373,"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22345\/revisions\/22373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}