Leonard Cohen Quotes - Page 16

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• I always felt I was scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to get a song together.

  Leonard Cohen

  Song, Bottom Of The Barrel, Trying

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• He hated the men floating in sleep in the big stone houses. Because their lives were ordered and their rooms tidy. Because they got up every morning and did their public work. Because they weren't going to dynamite their factories and have naked parties in the fire.

  Leonard Cohen

  Morning, Party, Sleep

  Leonard Cohen (2011). “The Favourite Game”, p.75, Emblem Editions

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• I've expressed my gratitude to my son many times. And his career is far from undistinguished, and it was a great privilege to have someone of this skill bringing this album to conclusion.

  Leonard Cohen

  Gratitude, Son, Skills

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• It's true that all the men you knew were dealers who said they were through with dealing Every time you gave them shelter. I know that kind of man It's hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.

  Leonard Cohen

  Men, Hands, Sky

  Song: The Stranger Song, 1967

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• I would like to work with Pat [ Leonard] in any capacity. I would love to hear his versions.

  Leonard Cohen

  Capacity, Versions

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• Your servant here, he has been told to say it clear, to say it cold: It's over, it ain't going any further And now the wheels of heaven stop you feel the devil's riding crop Get ready for the future: it is murder

  Leonard Cohen

  Heaven, Devil, Riding

  Song: The Future, Album: The Future, 1992

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• Some people, it [songwriting] comes faster. Some people, it comes slower.

  Leonard Cohen

  People, Faster, Songwriting

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• there's no forsaking what you love no existential leap as witnessed here in time and blood a thousand kisses deep

  Leonard Cohen

  Kissing, Blood, Existential

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• Most of our distractions are designed to invite us away from this recognition, which is a good idea.

  Leonard Cohen

  Ideas, Recognition, Distraction

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We actually lead very violent, passionate lives and I think that we're hungry for insights into this condition. That's why we get all that stuff on television. It's really where we are, really what we are.

  Leonard Cohen

  Thinking, Passionate, Television

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Probably all cultures, certainly Western culture, always have been violent.

  Leonard Cohen

  Western Culture, Violent, Has Beens

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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 songs.

  Leonard Cohen

  Song, Attention, Pay

  Leonard Cohen (2014). “Leonard Cohen on Leonard Cohen”, p.684, Omnibus Press

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• GIFT You tell me that silence is nearer to peace than poems but if for my gift I brought you silence (for I know silence) you would say This is not silence this is another poem and you would hand it back to me

  Leonard Cohen

  Hands, Silence, Knows

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• Certainly within any decadent period, you would probably find the purest expressions of conviction, and I do not see that in many of the people I know.

  Leonard Cohen

  Expression, People, Conviction

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Today [people] are ready to take emergency cures, whatever they are, if it's violence, if it's a fascination with serial killing or whatever - the discomfort is so intense. Maybe it's always been like that, certainly it is now.

  Leonard Cohen

  People, Fascination, Today

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It’s a pity if someone… has to console himself for the wreck of his days with the notion that somehow his voice, his work embodies the deepest, most obscure, freshest, rawest oyster of reality in the unfathomable refrigerator of the heart’s ocean, but I am such a one, and there you have it.

  Leonard Cohen

  Ocean, Heart, Reality

  Leonard Cohen (2008). “Book of Longing”, p.125, McClelland & Stewart

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• There's always a nice tune [on radio] - helps you get the dishes done . I like to get the news from time to time - not too often. I don't feel deprived.

  Leonard Cohen

  Nice, Tunes, News

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I try to make those references. I try to make sure that they're not too obscure. But outside of that, I dare not claim anything in the spiritual realm for my own.

  Leonard Cohen

  Spiritual, Trying, Obscure

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• I want history to jump on Canada's spine with sharp skates.

  Leonard Cohen

  Travel, Home, Want

  Leonard Cohen (2011). “Beautiful Losers”, p.233, Vintage

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• I've never thought of myself as a religious person.

  Leonard Cohen

  Religious, Persons, Religious Person

  "Leonard Cohen: giving Nobel to Bob Dylan like 'pinning medal on Everest'". www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2016.

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• It is different [to perform in Israel] because it arises from very deep wells of affiliation.

  Leonard Cohen

  Israel, Different, Affiliation

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• Well I see you there with the rose in your teeth One more thin gypsy thief... Yes, and thanks, for the trouble you took from her eyes I thought it was there for good so I never tried... And Jane came by with a lock of your hair She said that you gave it to her That night that you planned to go clear.

  Leonard Cohen

  Eye, Night, Hair

  "Famous Blue Raincoat". Song by Leonard Cohen, 1971.

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• I'm afraid to live any place but in expectation. I'm no life-risk.

  Leonard Cohen

  Expectations, Risk

  Leonard Cohen (2011). “The Favourite Game”, p.239, Emblem Editions

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• I looked into [Prozac]. I must say that it is certainly a wonder drug.

  Leonard Cohen

  Drug, Wonder, Prozac

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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