Excellence Quote by Leonard Cohen Download Open image “The fact that my songs take a long time to write is no guarantee of their excellence.” — Leonard Cohen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Excellence Facts Guarantees Long Long time Music Song Songs Time Writing
So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work. — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
You write a lot of bad songs before you write good ones. It takes time! — Taylor Momsen Copy Share Image
I'm a very slow songwriter; it takes me sometimes years to write one song, if I ever finish. — Michael McDonald Copy Share Image
I don't actually think that I'm a great songwriter - I'm just a really prolific songwriter, and I write so much that some of… — Olivia Rodrigo Copy Share Image
I'm not an extremely prolific writer. I don't write songs all the time. — Billy Burke Copy Share Image
Sometimes words come easily and sometimes they don't. Most songs take me twenty minutes to write. — Jillian Hervey Copy Share Image
It's very hard to get good songs because a lot of writers record their own; they keep the best for themselves. — Olivia Newton-John 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
The pursuit of perfection is frustrating and a waste of time, because nothing is ever perfect. The pursuit of excellence is commendable and worthwhile.… — Alan Kulwicki Copy Share Image
“But young men have not only this frivolous ambition of being thought masters of execution, inciting them on the one hand, but also their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Many humanists have argued that happiness involves a combination of hedonism and creative moral development; that an exuberant life fuses excellence and enjoyment, meaning… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“In your goals to go the extra mile, prepare to pay an extra cost. Excellence is to be exceptional, surpassing, more competent and a… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
We want to promote the great quality of athletics - and maintain it's integrity - all over the world. — Alberto Juantorena Copy Share Image
“Anytime I see a rainbow, what comes into my mind is how skillful and talented someone was to create an ark that didn't leak… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
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