In an interview to The Mike Walsh Show in 1985, Leonard
Cohen said about the song:
'It's curious how songs begin because the origin of
the song, every song, has a kind of grain or seed that somebody hands you or
the world hands you, and that's why the process is so mysterious about writing
a song. But this one came from just hearing or reading or knowing that in the
death camps, beside the crematoria, in certain death camps, a string quartet
was pressed into performance while the horror was going on, those were the
people whose fate was this horror also. And they would be playing classical
music while their fellow prisoners were being killed and burnt. So, that music,
'Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin,' meaning the beauty there of
being the consummation of life, the end of this existence and of the passionate
element in that consummation. But, it is the same language that we use for
surrender to the beloved, so that the song - it's not important that anybody
knows the genesis of it, because if the language comes from that passionate
resource, it will be able to embrace all passionate activity.'
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