Tag: Leonard Cohen
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When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you.
Leonard Cohen
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We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they’re paid for it.
Leonard Cohen
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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.
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.
Leonard Cohen
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There are some people who come to me for some illumination on their problems. I guess they feel I’m writing about some of the things they themselves are going through. But I don’t usually have much help to give – there isn’t much you can say to someone in the midst of their own crises.
Leonard Cohen
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Act the way you’d like to be and soon you’ll be the way you act.
Leonard Cohen
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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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Songs seem to take me a long time. I don’t know why; they’re not especially excellent for taking so long.
Leonard Cohen
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The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
Leonard Cohen
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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.
Leonard Cohen