I've often said if I knew where the good songs came from, I'd go there more often. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
His vision was just outstanding. If you think of him in the same way as Pele then you would come close. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
It's hard to be serious about so many things. [Look at the whole emphasis] on the charts, if you're a songwriter. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
May you be surrounded by friends and family, and if this is not your lot, may the blessings find you in your… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
If you're lucky, you can keep the vehicle healthy and responsive over the years. If you're lucky, your own intentions have very… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
When it all comes down to dust I will kill you if I must , I will help you if I can.… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
If you're squeezed for information, / that's when you've got to play it dumb: / You just say you're out there waiting… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Today [people] are ready to take emergency cures, whatever they are, if it's violence, if it's a fascination with serial killing or… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
You say I took the name in vain I don't even know the name But if I did, well really, what's it… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Any of the decisions that I made, if one could actually locate a shape or form, were all within a wall, the… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
If I knew where the good songs came from, I’d go there more often. It’s a mysterious condition. It’s much like the… — 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
Something I wrote quite a few years ago was, "The voices in my head, they don't care what I do, they just… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I felt like if any two people had any kind of sexual affinity for each other they had to sleep with each… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
My mind was always very cluttered, so I took great pains to simplify my environment, because if my environment were half as… — 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
You can do anything you want to [ in ashram] if you can find the time. It's a very rigorous day. It… — 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
The blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and it's overturned the order of the soul... — Leonard Cohen Copy Share
“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
“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
“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
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
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
I would say the hummingbird really deserves the royalties on [some of my songs]. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share
One is given to self-dramatization from time to time. I intend to live forever. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share
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
“Blessed are you, embrace of the falling, foundation of the light, master of the human accident.” — Leonard Cohen Copy Share
I continually blacken pages and scribble away, so I always have a number of songs that are half-finished. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share
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
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… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share
It's time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share
“I followed the course From chaos to art Desire the horse Depression the cart” — Leonard Cohen Copy Share
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