Tag: Leonard Cohen
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I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies’ man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they know my life.
Leonard Cohen
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Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chords when I knew five!
Leonard Cohen
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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.
Leonard Cohen
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As a young man, Yeats spoke to me in a way I could understand. Shakespeare I couldn’t understand, but Yeats I could. It was his subject matter and also I really admired the way he put his personal life on the line.
Leonard Cohen
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Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.
Leonard Cohen
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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.
Leonard Cohen
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I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group.
Leonard Cohen
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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.
Leonard Cohen
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Music is the emotional life of most people.
Leonard Cohen
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A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.
Leonard Cohen