It's been a long time since I've stood on a stage in London. Was about 14 or 15 years ago, I was… — 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 can work on a verse for a very long time before realising it's not any good and then, and only then,… — 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
You can keep the body as well-oiled and receptive as possible, but whether you're actually going to be able to go for… — 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
Songs seem to take me a long time. I don't know why; they're not especially excellent for taking so long. — 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
The fact that my songs take a long time to write is no guarantee of their excellence. — 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
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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