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
Like a bird on a wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir, I have tried in my way to be free!! — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
It's inappropriate for an elderly chap to register, you know, authentically, his feelings, you know, because they really can be interpreted. So… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
And what can I tell you, my brother, my killer, what can I possibly say? I guess that I miss you, I… — 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
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
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
As we make our way toward the finish line that some of us have already crossed, I never thought I'd get a… — 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… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
As a young man, Yeats spoke to me in a way I could understand. Shakespeare I couldn't understand, but Yeats I could.… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I see people allowing their lives to diminish, to become shallow, so they can't enjoy the deep wells of experience. Maybe it's… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm, your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy, golden storm, yes… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
It's coming to America first, The cradle of the best and of the worst. It's here they got the range And the… — 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
The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred… — 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
