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It doesn't matter how anything happens.
Leonard Cohen
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Leonard Cohen
Age: 82 †
Born: 1934
Born: September 21
Died: 2016
Died: November 7
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Leonard Norman Cohen
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Everybody knows that the boat is leaking. Everybody knows the captain lied. Everybody got this broken feeling, like their father or their dog just died. Everybody talking to their pockets. Everybody wants a box of chocolates and a long-stem rose. Everybody knows.
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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.
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I guess you go for nothing, if you really want to go that far.
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I can't run no more with that lawless crowd while the killers in high places say their prayers out loud. But they've summoned, they've summoned up a thundercloud and they're going to hear from me. Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That's how the light gets in.
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Dream after dream we all lie in each other's arms
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To keep our hearts open is probably the most urgent responsibility you have as you get older.
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Now I've heard there was a secret chord That David played, and it pleased the Lord But you don't really care for music, do you? It goes like this the fourth, the fifth The minor fall, the major lift The baffled king composing Hallelujah
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I won't comment on what Bob Dylan said, but I will comment on his receiving the Nobel Prize, which to me is like pinning a medal on Mount Everest for being the highest mountain.
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I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts
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Take one step to the side and it's all absurd.
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It just takes a long time for me [to write a song]. I'm very slow. And it comes, kind of, by dribbles and drops.
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I was 15 when I first became deeply touched by the rhythm and structure of words.
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Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.
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But remember when I moved in you And the holy dove was moving too And every breath we drew was Hallelujah.
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Music is the emotional life of the most people.
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English, I know you ... you are German with a license to kill.
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How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings
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My reputation as a ladies' man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone.
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I don't think you can write novels on the road. You need a certain stability.
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Like a bird on a wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir, I have tried in my way to be free!!
Leonard Cohen
