I think that any songwriter - and I think that Bob Dylan knows this more than all of us - you don't write the songs anyhow. — 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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
I would say the hummingbird really deserves the royalties on [some of my songs]. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share
One is given to self-dramatization from time to time. I intend to live forever. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share
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
“Blessed are you, embrace of the falling, foundation of the light, master of the human accident.” — Leonard Cohen Copy Share
I continually blacken pages and scribble away, so I always have a number of songs that are half-finished. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share
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
I loved you when you opened like a lily to the heat; you see I’m just another snowman standing in the rain and sleet… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share
It's time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share
“I followed the course From chaos to art Desire the horse Depression the cart” — Leonard Cohen Copy Share
