“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
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 would say the hummingbird really deserves the royalties on [some of my songs]. — 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 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
“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
If I knew where the good songs came from, I’d go there more often. It’s a mysterious condition. It’s much like 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 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
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
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
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
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
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
I'd written a lot of songs with hummingbirds in them. None of them ever came to anything, but I did write a… — 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
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
My friends are gone and my hair is grey. I ache in places I used to play. And I’m crazy for love… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Songs don’t dignify human activity. Human activity dignifies the song. — 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
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
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
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 always felt I was scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to get a song together. — 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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