Dreams Quotes by Leonard Cohen

11 Dreams quotes by Leonard Cohen

Cohen’s haunting, melodic phrasing is distilled into eleven brief lines, each echoing his signature blend of melancholy and hope. It’s a succinct portal into his poetic mind.

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In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.

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Dream after dream we all lie in each other's arms

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[Prozac] didn't seem to have any effect whatsoever on my melancholy, my dark vision, and everything else that I'd taken it for.

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To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee,…

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The Dream" "O I had such a wonderful dream, she said. I dreamed you made love to me. At last, he said…

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this is every musician's dream, to stand in front of an audience and not have to prove your credentials.

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You who build these altars now to sacrifice these children , you must not do it anymore. A scheme is not a…

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We are awakening from the dream of isolation, from the dream of loneliness, and it's a terrible shock.

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I dreamed about you baby. It was just the other night. Most of you was naked Ah, but some of you was…

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His vision was just outstanding. If you think of him in the same way as Pele then you would come close.

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It's been a long time since I've stood on a stage in London. Was about 14 or 15 years ago, I was…

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The blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and it's overturned the order of the soul...

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“Don't matter if you're rich and strong Don't matter if you're weak Don't matter if you write a song The nightingales repeat Don't matter…

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“You don't know me from the wind you never will, you never did I'm the little jew who wrote the Bible. I've seen the…

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“This is it I’m not coming after you I’m going to lie down for half an hour This is it I’m not going down…

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My sense of proprietorship has been so weak that actually I didn't pay attention and I lost the copyrights on a lot of the…

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This world is full of conflicts and full of things that cannot be reconciled. But there are moments when we can... reconcile and embrace…

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I would say the hummingbird really deserves the royalties on [some of my songs].

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One is given to self-dramatization from time to time. I intend to live forever.

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The basic function of popular music is to create an environment for courting, lovemaking, and doing the dishes. It's useful because it addresses the…

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“Blessed are you, embrace of the falling, foundation of the light, master of the human accident.”

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I continually blacken pages and scribble away, so I always have a number of songs that are half-finished.

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I have nothing against the Queen of England. Even in my heart I never resented her for not being Jackie Kennedy. She is, to…

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I loved you when you opened like a lily to the heat; you see I’m just another snowman standing in the rain and sleet…

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It's time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.

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“I followed the course From chaos to art Desire the horse Depression the cart”

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