Maybe we, the cultural workers , could apply ourselves. We're not going to resolve it in this moment or even in this… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
It just takes a long time for me [to write a song]. I'm very slow. And it comes, kind of, by dribbles… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I like life on the road. It's a lot easier than civilian life. You kind of feel like you're in a motorcycle… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Anyone who's been a heavy drinker and heavy smoker and has the good future to survive that and give it up knows… — 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've never thought of myself as a singer anyway. . . I've been free from those considerations because so many people over… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
If you want a lover I'll do anything you ask. If you want a different kind of love I'll wear a mask.… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I kind of limp along like so many of us do in these realms. Occasionally I've felt the grace of another presence… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I had girlfriends who really irritated me by their devotion to the Beatles. I didn't begrudge them their interest, and there were… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
It is painful to recall a past intensity, to estimate your distance from the Belsen heap, to make your peace with numbers.… — 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
It's true that all the men you knew were dealers who said they were through with dealing Every time you gave them… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
If you want a lover I'll do anything you ask me to. And if you want another kind of love I'll wear… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
There are writers who are great visionaries, who can depict huge movements - things like that. They're the great writers. I'm just… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I listen to the radio and I like all kinds of music, you know, but I like to hear from people who… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
There's a deep tribal aspect to my own nature. So when I'm in contact with those deep resources, of course I feel… — 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
Everyone has a kind of magical system that they employ in the hopes that this will open up the channels. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
[Patrick Leonard] is such a magnificent composer. I don't think there is anybody working today with those kind of skills that could… — 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
I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
This particular school of Zen has always considered itself the Marines of the spiritual world, so it has a kind of bias… — 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