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
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
I always felt I was scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to get a song together. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“and once again I am a singer in the lower choirs, born fifty years ago to raise my voice this high, and… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
When we are touched by a song, it is because the artist cannot hide himself. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Some people, it [songwriting] comes faster. Some people, it comes slower. — 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
“Then I start to struggle With a feeble song Which will overcome me Many miles from home” — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
There's always a group of songs that I'm working at. Some of them are 10 years old, and some of them are… — 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
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
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
I've always held the song in high regard because songs have got me through so many sinks of dishes and so many… — 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… — 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
I had the title poet, and maybe I was one for a while. Also, the title singer was kindly accorded me, even… — 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
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
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
This civil action is another case of a tragedy that has become all too familiar in the music industry: a business manager… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I think what we like about music - and what we like about art in general…is that enterprise that stops our minds… — 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
As soon as anybody does one of my songs, I rejoice. This particular case of all these great singers doing my work… — 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
“-You know how to call me although such a noise now would only confuse the air Neither of us can forget the… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I've often said if I knew where the good songs came from, I'd go there more often. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I would say the hummingbird really deserves the royalties on [some of my songs]. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Women stand for the objective world for a man. They stand for the thing that you're not and that's what you always… — 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… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I swear by this song and by all that I have done wrong, I will make it all up to thee. — 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
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
Songs don’t dignify human activity. Human activity dignifies the song. — 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 continually blacken pages and scribble away, so I always have a number of songs that are half-finished. — 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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