The basic function of popular music is to create an environment for courting, lovemaking, and doing the dishes. It's useful because it… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I have nothing against the Queen of England. Even in my heart I never resented her for not being Jackie Kennedy. She… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Well, I've been waiting, I was sure we'd meet between the trains we're waiting for I think it's time to board another… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
It’s a pity if someone… has to console himself for the wreck of his days with the notion that somehow his voice,… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I think that really what our training, what our culture, our religious institutions, our educational and cultural institutions should be about is… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Your heart opens and of course you're completely panicked because you're used to guarding this organ with your life. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
My heart sings of your longing for me, and my thoughts climb down to marvel at your mercy. I do not fear… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Maybe there's a god above but the only thing I learned from love was how to shoot at somebody who outdrew you. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
From bitter searching of the heart, quickened with passion and with pain we rise to play a greater part this is the… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
It's the notion that there is no perfection - that there is a broken world and we live with broken hearts and… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Part of the shabbiness of our culture, if indeed it is shabby, is that it doesn't seem to prepare people. With all… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
And sometimes when the night is slow The wretched and the meek We gather up our hearts and go A Thousand Kisses… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
A song, you know, you've got a tempo. You know,you've got something that is moving swiftly. You can't stop it, you know?… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Well, you know, there's depression and depression. What I mean by depression in my own case is that depression isn't just the… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
We've got to temper anything we say with that. On the other hand, you've got to be serious about what you do.… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
To keep our hearts open is probably the most urgent responsibility you have as you get older. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I see people allowing their lives to diminish, to become shallow, so they can't enjoy the deep wells of experience. Maybe it's… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
It's coming to America first, The cradle of the best and of the worst. It's here they got the range And the… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Undertow" "I set out one night When the tide was low There were signs in the sky But I did not know… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
And most people have a woman in their heart, most men have a woman in their heart and most women have a… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
The blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and it's overturned the order of the soul... — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“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… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“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… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“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… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
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… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
This world is full of conflicts and full of things that cannot be reconciled. But there are moments when we can... reconcile and embrace… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I would say the hummingbird really deserves the royalties on [some of my songs]. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
One is given to self-dramatization from time to time. I intend to live forever. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
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… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“Blessed are you, embrace of the falling, foundation of the light, master of the human accident.” — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I continually blacken pages and scribble away, so I always have a number of songs that are half-finished. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I have nothing against the Queen of England. Even in my heart I never resented her for not being Jackie Kennedy. She is, to… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
