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
To the men and women who own men and women those of us meant to be lovers we will not pardon you… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Some say that no one ever leaves Montreal, for that city, like Canada itself, is designed to preserve the past, a past… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“It looks like freedom but it feels like death, it's something in between I guess. It's closing time.” — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
It's time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
there's no forsaking what you love no existential leap as witnessed here in time and blood a thousand kisses deep — 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
I can work on a verse for a very long time before realising it's not any good and then, and only then,… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“The band is playing Auld Lang Syne But the heart will not retreat There's no forsaking what you love No existential leap… — 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
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
Most of the time one is discouraged by the work, but now and again by some grace something stands out and invites… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
A poem has a certain - a different time. For instance, a poem is a very private experience, and it doesn't have… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Your servant here, he has been told to say it clear, to say it cold: It's over, it ain't going any further… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
But I'm stubborn as those garbage bags that time cannot decay, I'm junk but I'm still holding up this little wild bouquet:… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I don't know which side is anybody on any more. I don't really care. There is a moment when we have to… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
My heart sings of your longing for me, and my thoughts climb down to marvel at your mercy. I do not fear… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
It's been a long time since I've stood on a stage in London. Was about 14 or 15 years ago, I was… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
[I had a sense of interior panic].Always. I didn't really know what to call it for a long time, but I have… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
A sip of wine, a cigarette, And then it’s time to go. I tidied up the kitchenette; I tuned the old banjo.… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled that we slowly lose the… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Anyone who's been a heavy drinker and heavy smoker and has the good future to survive that and give it up knows… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“Baby, I've been waiting, I've been waiting night and day I didn't see the time, I waited half my life away” — 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
The fact that my songs take a long time to write is no guarantee of their excellence. — 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
I loved you for a long, long time I know this love is real It don't matter how it all went wrong… — 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
“a fresh spiderweb billowing like a spinnaker across the open window and here he is the little master sailing by on a… — 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
“Yeah I missed you since the place got wrecked By the winds of change and the weeds of sex looks like freedom… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I'm not a very nostalgic person. I don't really look at the past and summon up regrets, or self-congratulations, it just is… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
There's always a nice tune [on radio] - helps you get the dishes done . I like to get the news from… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
You can do anything you want to [ in ashram] if you can find the time. It's a very rigorous day. It… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
In My Secret Life" "I saw you this morning, you were moving so fast. Can't seem to loosen my grip On the… — 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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![“You can do anything you want to [ in ashram] if you can find the time. It's a very rigorous day. It starts at 2:30 in the morning and often doesn't end until midnight, so if you can actually find a moment to have a drink or a smoke, you're quite welcome to, as long as it doesn't interfere with…” quote by Leonard Cohen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d9c/leonard-cohen-448_can-do_you-can-do-anything-you-want-to-in-ashra_2933681.jpg)
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