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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 one's life when one has to close down just to regroup. "

Leonard Cohen

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Leonard Cohen

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

" Out of the thousands who are known or who want to be known as poets, maybe one or two are genuine and the rest are fakes, hanging around the sacred precincts, trying to look like the real thing. "

" 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. "

" When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you. "

" The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show. "

Leonard Cohen

Running

Get

" I've got beautiful reviews for all my books, and I'm very well thought of in the tiny circles that know me, but I'm really starving. "

Leonard Cohen

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Got

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

" I had the title poet, and maybe I was one for a while. Also, the title singer was kindly accorded me, even though I could barely carry a tune. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You can keep the body as well-oiled and receptive as possible, but whether you're actually going to be able to go for the long haul is really not your own choice. "

" 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. "

" Music is the emotional life of most people. "

" Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 had girlfriends who really irritated me by their devotion to the Beatles. I didn't begrudge them their interest, and there were songs like 'Hey Jude' that I could appreciate. But they didn't seem to be essential to the kind of nourishment that I craved. "

Leonard Cohen

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Devotion

" Songs seem to take me a long time. I don't know why; they're not especially excellent for taking so long. "

Leonard Cohen

Time

Why

" I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out in dungeons so it's very hard for me to place any high value on the work that I do to write a song. Yeah, I work hard but compared to what? "

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