Tag: Leonard Cohen
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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.
Leonard Cohen
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I like life on the road. It’s a lot easier than civilian life. You kind of feel like you’re in a motorcycle gang.
Leonard Cohen
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I didn’t want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write.
Leonard Cohen
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I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a kind of dangerous description. It’s for others; it’s for others to use.
Leonard Cohen
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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.
Leonard Cohen
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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.
Leonard Cohen
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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.
Leonard Cohen
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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.
Leonard Cohen
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I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense that nothing goes well, that pleasure is unavailable and all your strategies collapse.
Leonard Cohen