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
I think that any songwriter - and I think that Bob Dylan knows this more than all of us - you don't… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I would like to study Judaism. I feel that my own Jewish education was really quite superficial from a certain point of… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Certainly within any decadent period, you would probably find the purest expressions of conviction, and I do not see that in many… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Everybody knows that you've been faithful, give or take a night or two. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I don't know which side is anybody on any more. I don't really care. There is a moment when we have to… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich / Thats how it goes / Everybody knows. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I know that there is an eye that watches all of us. There is a judgment that weighs everything we do. And… — 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
Now, I don't want to give you the impression that I'm a great musicologist, but I'm a lot better than what I… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Just to get serious about this thing, you know. One has to be compassionate. It's true that people are up against things,… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
A poem has a certain - a different time. For instance, a poem is a very private experience, and it doesn't have… — 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
[I had a sense of interior panic].Always. I didn't really know what to call it for a long time, but I have… — 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
It's inappropriate for an elderly chap to register, you know, authentically, his feelings, you know, because they really can be interpreted. So… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Everybody knows that the boat is leaking. Everybody knows the captain lied. Everybody got this broken feeling, like their father or their… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I loved you for a long, long time I know this love is real It don't matter how it all went wrong… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I have to finish it in order to know whether it deserves to survive. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I hope we [with Patrick Leonard] can come up with something orchestral with some spoken material. And I also, God willing, hope… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I smile when I'm angry , I cheat and I lie. I do what I have to do to get by. But… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I alwaysthought of myself as a competent, minor poet. I know who I'm up against. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I feel that, you know, the enormous luck I've had in being able to make a living, and to never have had… — 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
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