"I never really liked poetry readings; I liked……" — Leonard Cohen
"I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group."
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253 Quotes by Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen has 253 quotes on this site.
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Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.
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I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain.…
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In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.
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The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show.
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A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.
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When things get really bad, just raise your glass and stamp your feet and do a little jig. That's about…
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We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out…
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We're always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who've closed down. And there are times in…
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Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will…
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Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is…
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I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety,…
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I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly.
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More Chanting Quotes
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This chanting of the Hare Krishna mantra is enacted from the spiritual platform and thus this sound vibration surpasses all…
— A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
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The young intellectuals are all chanting, "Revolution, Revolution," but I say the revolution will have to start in our homes,…
— Qiu Jin
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It is not a question of sitting silently, it is not a question of chanting a mantra. It is a…
— Rajneesh
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We rarely quote nowadays to appeal to authority... though we quote sometimes to display our sapience and erudition. Some authors…
— Ihab Hassan
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One will develop ruchi (liking) for chanting of the holy names, when one has compassion for each and every living…
— Lokanatha Swami
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When I wrote the song, I had the sea near Bombay in mind. We stayed at a hotel by the…
— Ray Davies
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I wasn’t like, boo hoo, Bin Laden’s dead, but I wasn’t jumping. America’s a very nationalistic country, and in episodes…
— Jeremy Scahill
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Chanting is a way of getting in touch with yourself. It's an opening of the heart and letting go of…
— Krishna Das
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The big political news, Arnold Schwarzenegger announced he's running for governor of California, and already, people are chanting, 'Four more…
— Craig Kilborn
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All the ballparks and the big crowds have a certain mystique. You feel attached, permanently wedded to the sounds that…
— Mickey Mantle
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Welcome to Israel, where chanting “Death to Arabs” is democracy, running over children is equality, and firing on funerals is…
— Remi Kanazi
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You are a cosmic flower. Om chanting is the process of opening the psychic petals of that flower.
— Amit Ray
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