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" The basic function of popular music is to create an environment for courting, lovemaking, and doing the dishes. It's useful because it addresses the heart in the midst of all these activities, and it will always be useful in this very important way. "

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" To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of itself. "

Leonard Cohen

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" I have a deep tribal sense. I grew up in a synagogue that my ancestors built. I sat in the third row. My family was decent. They were good people; they were handshake people. So I never had a sense of rebellion. "

" And I had not much of a voice. I didn't play that great guitar either. "

" The fact that my songs take a long time to write is no guarantee of their excellence. "

" We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're paid for it. "

" I never had the sense that there was an end: that there was a retirement or that there was a jackpot. "

" As we make our way toward the finish line that some of us have already crossed, I never thought I'd get a Grammy Award. In fact, I was always touched by the modesty of their interest. "

" A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love. "

" Some people care about their work lasting forever - I have little interest in it. "

" This is the most challenging activity that humans get into, which is love. You know, where we have the sense that we can't live without love. That life has very little meaning without love. "

" I don't have any sense or urgency about any of my writing, actually. I don't think mankind will be damaged if I don't put out a new album or a new book. "

" Success is survival. "

" I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they know my life. "

" I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly. "

" The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world. "

" The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape. "

" I can make a couple of good sandwiches: tuna salad and chopped egg salad. And Greek bean soup. I was a cook for my old Zen master for many years. So there were two or three dishes that he liked, you know. Teriyaki salmon, a few things. "

" At a certain point, if you still have your marbles and are not faced with serious financial challenges, you have a chance to put your house in order. It's a cliche, but it's underestimated as an analgesic on all levels. Putting your house in order, if you can do it, is one of the most comforting activities, and the benefits of it are incalculable. "

" All of my writing has guitars behind it, even the novels. "

" In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress. "

" There's always a group of songs that I'm working at. Some of them are 10 years old, and some of them are just a few weeks old. I'm always trying to adjust these songs to some position where I can bring them to completion. "

" Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chords when I knew five! "

Leonard Cohen

Three

Said

" There were times that I thought I was good looking. "

" My mind was always very cluttered, so I took great pains to simplify my environment, because if my environment were half as cluttered as my mind, I wouldn't be able to make it from room to room. "

" When things get really bad, just raise your glass and stamp your feet and do a little jig. That's about all you can do. "

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

" Women stand for the objective world for a man. They stand for the thing that you're not and that's what you always reach for in a song. "

" If I knew where the good songs came from, I'd go there more often. "

Leonard Cohen

Knew

Songs

" My reputation as a ladies' man was a joke. It caused me to laugh bitterly through the 10,000 nights I spent alone. "

" My two great heroes are W. B. Yeats and Federico García Lorca. "