Leonard Cohen Quotes - Page 14

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• ..you wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent

  Leonard Cohen

  Wanted, Kent

  Leonard Cohen (2011). “Beautiful Losers”, p.159, Vintage

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• I felt like if any two people had any kind of sexual affinity for each other they had to sleep with each other immediately, otherwise it was a terrible betrayal and waste...Fortunately, I'm relieved of those obsessions now. It's really wonderful. It's really wonderful not feeling you have to sleep with everybody.

  Leonard Cohen

  Love, Betrayal, Sleep

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• I noticed that when I was on Prozac my relationship with the landscape improved. I actually stopped thinking about myself for a minute or two, because most of the thoughts one has about oneself are involved with desire or loneliness or isolation or strategies to overcome them.

  Leonard Cohen

  Loneliness, Thinking, Two

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There are a few things that deal with passion. There's Prozac.

  Leonard Cohen

  Passion, Prozac, Deals

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've seen the future and it's murder.

  Leonard Cohen

  Murder

  FaceBook post by Leonard Cohen from Apr 20, 2009

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• At first first nothing will happen to us and later on it will happen to us again.

  Leonard Cohen

  Firsts, Happens

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• I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.

  Leonard Cohen

  Buttons, His Love, Offers

  Leonard Cohen (2010). “Book of Mercy”, p.1, McClelland & Stewart

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• This particular school of Zen has always considered itself the Marines of the spiritual world, so it has a kind of bias against conceptual thinking in favor of a very rigorous physical life.

  Leonard Cohen

  Spiritual, School, Marine

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I listen to the radio and I like all kinds of music, you know, but I like to hear from people who have been there. Hank Williams has been there.

  Leonard Cohen

  People, Radio, Kind

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• I’ll be marching through the morning, Marching through the night, Moving 'cross the borders Of My Secret Life.

  Leonard Cohen

  Morning, Moving, Night

  Song: In My Secret Life, Album: Ten New Songs, 2001

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• I lit a thin green candle to make you jealous of me, but the room just filled up with mosquitoes.

  Leonard Cohen

  Relationship, Jealous, Filled Up

  Song: One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong, Album: Songs of Leonard Cohen, 1967

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• I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts

  Leonard Cohen

  Facts, Cold, Drunkards

  Leonard Cohen (2010). “Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs”, p.48, Random House

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• i would like to remind the management that the drinks are watered and the hat-check girl has syphilis and the band is composed of former ss monsters However since it is new year's eve and i have lip cancer i will place my paper hat on my concussion and dance

  Leonard Cohen

  Girl, New Year, Cancer

  Leonard Cohen (2010). “Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs”, p.60, Random House

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• And sometimes when the night is slow The wretched and the meek We gather up our hearts and go A Thousand Kisses Deep.

  Leonard Cohen

  Heart, Kissing, Night

  Song: A Thousand Kisses Deep, Album: Ten New Songs, 2001

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• My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.

  Leonard Cohen

  Character, Interest, Betray

  Leonard Cohen (2011). “Beautiful Losers”, p.14, Vintage

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• The wars they will be fought again The holy dove be caught again bought and sold and bought again; the dove is never free.

  Leonard Cohen

  Peace, War, Dove

  Leonard Cohen (2008). “The Lyrics of Leonard Cohen: Enhanced Edition”, p.31, Omnibus Press

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• If you're lucky, you can keep the vehicle healthy and responsive over the years. If you're lucky, your own intentions have very little to do with this.

  Leonard Cohen

  Years, Healthy, Lucky

  "Leonard Cohen Corrects Himself: 'I Intend to Stick Around Until 120'" by Chris Willman, www.billboard.com. October 14, 2016.

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• A sip of wine, a cigarette, And then it’s time to go. I tidied up the kitchenette; I tuned the old banjo. I’m wanted at the traffic-jam. They’re saving me a seat.

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  Wine, Jam, Saving

  Song: Boogie Street, Album: Ten New Songs, 2001

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• [Europe has] this tradition of self revelation in popular music. We have it here - it's called Country Western Music... I think that's where the deeper and more complex subjects are treated.

  Leonard Cohen

  Country, Thinking, Self

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• Other people singing my songs is something that I've never been casual about. I've always been very touched by it and I always go into immediate critical suspension.

  Leonard Cohen

  Song, People, Singing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• To have [Adam's Cohen] microscopic attention to my work was really a great privilege.

  Leonard Cohen

  Attention, Privilege, Adam

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• Adam [Cohen] is a great singer-songwriter in his own right.

  Leonard Cohen

  Singers, Adam, Singer-songwriters

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• Garages, barns and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.

  Leonard Cohen

  Barns, Building, Garage

  Leonard Cohen (2011). “The Favourite Game”, p.19, Emblem Editions

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• Well, I've been waiting, I was sure we'd meet between the trains we're waiting for I think it's time to board another Please understand, I never had a secret chart to get me to the heart of this or any other matter

  Leonard Cohen

  Heart, Thinking, Waiting

  Song: The Stranger Song, 1967

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• My son and my daughter have both been an incredibly sustaining force, especially through this recent bad patch [of health]. So, I've been blessed and grateful for their company and for their assistance.

  Leonard Cohen

  Daughter, Blessed, Grateful

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