Some people, it [songwriting] comes faster. Some people, it comes slower. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Some people care about their work lasting forever - I have little interest in it. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Other people singing my songs is something that I've never been casual about. I've always been very touched by it and 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
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
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
The obstacles are great and the suffering is great and people have got to make a living. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Some people are graced with a flow; some people are graced with something less than a flow. I'm one of those. — 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
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
It’s a depressing habit you have of loving to sneeze and of eating apples as if they were juicier for you and… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
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
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
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
It's easy to look down from the summit you've reached, or even the summit I've reached, and talk about the responsibilities of… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
There are some people who come to me for some illumination on their problems. I guess they feel I'm writing about some… — 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
The psychologists are valiantly trying to provide us with answers, the religious people are trying to provide us with answers. I think… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
We're always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who've closed down. And there are times in one's life… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I'm writing all the time. And as the songs begin to coalesce, I'm not doing anything else but writing. I wish I… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee,… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
No one's ever done one of my songs badly. People say to me, "God, so-and-so wrecked that song." Well, I'm unaware of… — 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
One is distracted by this notion that there is such an thing as inspiration, that it comes fast and easy. And some… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I think there's an appetite for seriousness. Seriousness is voluptuous, and very few people have allowed themselves the luxury of it. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I'm on tour is to meet people. I consider it a reconnaissance. You know, I consider myself like… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I don't think there's any difference between a crush and profound love. I think the experience is that you dissolve your sentries… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out in dungeons… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
People used to say my music was too difficult or too obscure, and I never set out to be difficult or obscure.… — 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
Suzanne had a room on a waterfront street in the port of Montreal. Everything happened just as it was put down. She… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I do cherish those moments when I can just relax in the hotel room. Because there are a lot of details that… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
There are always meaningful songs for somebody. People are doing their courting, people are finding their wives, people are making babies, people… — 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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