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
Well, I've been waiting, I was sure we'd meet between the trains we're waiting for I think it's time to board another… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
We actually lead very violent, passionate lives and I think that we're hungry for insights into this condition. That's why we get… — 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
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 think that really what our training, what our culture, our religious institutions, our educational and cultural institutions should be about is… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I would like to study Judaism. I feel that my own Jewish education was really quite superficial from a certain point of… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Something I wrote quite a few years ago was, "The voices in my head, they don't care what I do, they just… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Nothing can stop you from thinking. The human mind is designed to think continually. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I think that all the spiritual training is just to be able to allow you to experience this from a slightly different… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
[Europe has] this tradition of self revelation in popular music. We have it here - it's called Country Western Music... I think… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I don't think you can write novels on the road. You need a certain stability. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Growing old becomes clear to you at a certain point. I think it's after the age of 70 you realize - you… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
We all are motivated by deep impulses and deep appetites to serve, even though we may not be able to locate that… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
His vision was just outstanding. If you think of him in the same way as Pele then you would come close. — 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
[Patrick Leonard] is such a magnificent composer. I don't think there is anybody working today with those kind of skills that could… — 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
I think culture's always been violent, and it is something we find very entertaining. Not only does it reflect our social reality,… — 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
Yes, you who must leave everything that you cannot control, It begins with your family, and soon it comes round to your… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I noticed that when I was on Prozac my relationship with the landscape improved. I actually stopped thinking about myself for a… — 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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