"Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to……" — Leonard Cohen
"Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chords when I knew five!"
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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 Chords Quotes
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Every person, every race, every nation, has its own particular keynote which it brings to the general chord of life…
— Annie Besant
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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place.
— David Bowie
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There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always…
— David Bowie
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The topic of leadership is a touchy one. A lot of leaders fail because they don't have the bravery to…
— Kobe Bryant
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All you needed was a couple of instruments and a few chords and you could be on an indie label.
— David Byrne
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The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears.…
— Albert Camus
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Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not…
— Kate Chopin
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There's a richness to the old works if you look before the 1950s. The chord progressions and the language was…
— Tori Amos
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Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of Self,…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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This pride of race is a quality which the German, fundamentally, does not possess. The reason for this is that…
— Adolf Hitler
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