Maybe we, the cultural workers , could apply ourselves. We're not going to resolve it in this moment or even in this… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I didn't want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write. — 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
Out of the thousands who are known or who want to be known as poets, maybe one or two are genuine and… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
History is a needle for putting men asleep anointed with the poison Of all they want to keep. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
If you want a lover I'll do anything you ask. If you want a different kind of love I'll wear a mask.… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
If you want a lover I'll do anything you ask me to. And if you want another kind of love I'll wear… — 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
Everybody knows that the boat is leaking. Everybody knows the captain lied. Everybody got this broken feeling, like their father or their… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Now suzanne takes you hand And she leads you to the river She is wearing rags and feathers From salvation army counters… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
In Montreal spring is like an autopsy. Everyone wants to see the inside of the frozen mammoth. Girls rip off their sleeves… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I feel that, you know, the enormous luck I've had in being able to make a living, and to never have had… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
When you call me close to tell me your body is not beautiful I want to summon the eyes and hidden mouths… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
We are not mad. We are human.We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love,… — 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
So the great affair is over but whoever would have guessed, It would leave us all so vacant and so deeply unimpressed,… — 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