KW-17-2016: 75 JAHRE BOB DYLAN – 75 Beiträge zu Dylans 75. Geburtstag – (5/75 – one of those anecdotes: dylan & cohen in paris oder: „Ich und Ich und Hallelujah“ : COHEN & DYLAN – Performances, in Concert, Music & Poetry, Anecdotes & Infos. the neverending & everlasting comparison. COHEN & DYLAN – Some critical anaylises – by Christof Graf

“How long did it take to write it?” Dylan asked. “Two years,” Cohen lied knowing full well that the process of forming that particular song actually stretched into five years.

In response, Cohen told Dylan: “I really like ‘I and I,” in reference to the song that appeared on Dylan’s album Infidels. “How long did it take you to write that?” Cohen then asked.

“About fifteen minutes,” Dylan replied. The dye was cast, though they may have been very different writers they were certainly part of the same spectrum. “I think that Bob Dylan knows this more than all of us: you don’t write the songs anyhow,” Cohen later said in 2008. “So if you’re lucky, you can keep the vehicle healthy and responsive over the years. If you’re lucky, your own intentions have very little to do with this,“

The only Cohen song he ever covered. He did it twice in 1988, in: MONTREAL & LOS ANGELES