Leonard Cohen Quotes - Page 10

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• Hallelujah" "Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bathing on the roof. Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you. She tied you to a kitchen chair, she broke your throne, and she cut your hair. And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah.

  Leonard Cohen

  Strong, Cutting, Hair

  Song: Hallelujah

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• Maybe the culture is [particularly] shabby now. Maybe it's because I'm over sixty, that I can feel that about everything.

  Leonard Cohen

  Culture, Feels, Sixty

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You win a while, and then it’s done - Your little winning streak.

  Leonard Cohen

  Winning, Done, Littles

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

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• As soon as anybody does one of my songs, I rejoice. This particular case of all these great singers doing my work - the implications are very rich and the temptation to think of the outcome of these masses of the mainstream injecting my work into the marketplace, it's a very sweet speculation.

  Leonard Cohen

  Song, Sweet, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• One is distracted by this notion that there is such an thing as inspiration, that it comes fast and easy. And some people are graced by that style. I'm not. So I have to work as hard as any stiff to come up with my payload

  Leonard Cohen

  Inspiration, People, Style

  Leonard Cohen (2014). “Leonard Cohen on Leonard Cohen”, p.347, Omnibus Press

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• Everytime you grab at love you will lose a snowflake of your memory

  Leonard Cohen

  Memories, Love You, Snowflake

  Leonard Cohen (2008). “Book of Longing”, p.110, McClelland & Stewart

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• It's easy to look down from the summit you've reached, or even the summit I've reached, and talk about the responsibilities of the artist, but most people are just trying to get their foot in the door and make a living.

  Leonard Cohen

  Responsibility, Artist, Doors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Get ready for the future: it is murder.

  Leonard Cohen

  Murder, Ready

  Song: The Future, Album: The Future, 1992

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• So the great affair is over but whoever would have guessed, It would leave us all so vacant and so deeply unimpressed, It's like our visit to the moon or to that other star, I guess you go for nothing if you really want to go that far.

  Leonard Cohen

  Stars, Moon, Infidelity

  Song: Death Of A Ladies' Man, Album: Death of a Ladies' Man, 1977

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• [I had a sense of interior panic].Always. I didn't really know what to call it for a long time, but I have a friend in Greece who used that word panic a lot, and I found myself resisting it, until I totally accepted that as a precise description of my interior condition. It was mostly panic from one moment to the next. And nothing much else was going on.

  Leonard Cohen

  Long, Panic, Next

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think culture's always been violent, and it is something we find very entertaining. Not only does it reflect our social reality, but it also reflects our psychic reality.

  Leonard Cohen

  Reality, Thinking, Psychics

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• From bitter searching of the heart, quickened with passion and with pain we rise to play a greater part this is the faith from which we start.

  Leonard Cohen

  Pain, Passion, Heart

  Song: Villanelle For Our Time, Album: Dear Heather, 2004

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• It's time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.

  Leonard Cohen

  Laughing, Cry

  Song: So Long, Marianne, 1967

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• I didn't want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write.

  Leonard Cohen

  Writing, Want, Pay

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity.

  Leonard Cohen

  Political, Elements, Pieces

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• Your body will never be familiar.

  Leonard Cohen

  Body, Familiar, Your Body

  Leonard Cohen (2011). “The Favourite Game”, p.26, Emblem Editions

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• Be With Me In The Phases Of My Work Because My Brain Feels Like It Has Been Whipped And I Yearn To Make A Small Perfect Thing Which Will Live In Your Morning Like Curious Static Through A President's Elegy Or A Nude Hunchback Acquiring A Tan On The Crowded Oily Beach.

  Leonard Cohen

  Beach, Morning, Perfect

  Leonard Cohen (2011). “Beautiful Losers”, p.76, Vintage

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• When you call me close to tell me your body is not beautiful I want to summon the eyes and hidden mouths of stone and light and water to testify against you.

  Leonard Cohen

  Beautiful, Eye, Light

  Leonard Cohen (2010). “Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs”, p.25, Random House

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• Rust rust rust in the engines of love and time.

  Leonard Cohen

  Time And Love, Rust, Engines

  "Flowers for Hitler". Poem by Leonard Cohen, 1964.

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• I fought against the bottle, but I had to do it drunk. Took my diamond to the pawn shop, but that don't make it junk.

  Leonard Cohen

  Drunk, Junk, Bottles

  Song: That Don't Make It Junk, Album: Ten New Songs, 2001

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• It is painful to recall a past intensity, to estimate your distance from the Belsen heap, to make your peace with numbers. Just to get up each morning is to make a kind of peace.

  Leonard Cohen

  Peace, Morning, Distance

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• And this is our time-keeper, with a passion for percussion

  Leonard Cohen

  Inspiration, Passion, Percussion

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• I smile when I'm angry , I cheat and I lie. I do what I have to do to get by. But I know what is wrong and I know what is right , and I'd die for the truth in my secret life .

  Leonard Cohen

  Lying, Secret, I Smile

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

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• Seriousness is not Calvinistic, it's not a renunciation, it's the very opposite of that.

  Leonard Cohen

  Opposites, Seriousness, Renunciation

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin

  Leonard Cohen

  Manhattan, Berlin, Firsts

  Song: First We Take Manhattan, Album: I'm Your Man, 1988

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