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" 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. "
Leonard Cohen
You
Things
Little
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" One of the reasons I'm on tour is to meet people. I consider it a reconnaissance. You know, I consider myself like in a military operation. I don't feel like a citizen. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Working
Trying
" I don't think you can write novels on the road. You need a certain stability. "
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Need
Road
" And I had not much of a voice. I didn't play that great guitar either. "
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Guitar
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" I can work on a verse for a very long time before realising it's not any good and then, and only then, can I discard it. "
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" 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. "
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Urgency
Think
Book
" I always felt I was scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to get a song together. "
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Trying
Song
Together
" 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. "
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Family
People
Good
" As I approach the end of my life, I have even less and less interest in examining what have got to be very superficial evaluations or opinions about the significance of one's life or one's work. I was never given to it when I was healthy, and I am less given to it now. "
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Healthy
My Life
Work
" And most people have a woman in their heart, most men have a woman in their heart and most women have a man in their heart. "
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People
Women
Heart
" We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're paid for it. "
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Nobody
Music
Guitar
" Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered. "
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Prayer
He
Language
" 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. "
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Joy
Sadness
People
" Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act. "
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Way
Soon
You
" Some people care about their work lasting forever - I have little interest in it. "
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Forever
Work
Some People
" I had a very messianic childhood. "
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Childhood
Had
Very
" 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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Environment
Create
Doing
" I continually blacken pages and scribble away, so I always have a number of songs that are half-finished. "
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Away
Always
Number
" 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. "
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Rest
Trying
" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Finish Line
Way
Finish
" I've always been into self-dramatization. I intend to live forever. "
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Always
Forever
Intend
" 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. "
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Environment
Mind
Always
" There are writers who are great visionaries, who can depict huge movements - things like that. They're the great writers. I'm just the other kind. "
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" 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. "
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Love
" When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you. "
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Yourself
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" Music is the emotional life of most people. "
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Most
Emotional
Life
" My reputation as a ladies' man was a joke. It caused me to laugh bitterly through the 10,000 nights I spent alone. "
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Reputation
Alone
Joke