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One is distracted by this notion that there is such an thing as inspiration, that it comes fast and easy. And some people are graced by that style. I'm not. So I have to work as hard as any stiff to come up with my payload
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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Stunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old and full of grief, but still not suffering.
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I think that any songwriter - and I think that Bob Dylan knows this more than all of us - you don't write the songs anyhow.
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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!!
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It's easy to look down from the summit you've reached, or even the summit I've reached, and talk about the responsibilities of the artist, but most people are just trying to get their foot in the door and make a living.
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Some people are graced with a flow some people are graced with something less than a flow. I'm one of those.
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No penance serves to renew them, no massive transfusions of trust. Why not even revenge can undo them, so twisted these vows and so crushed.
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It's time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
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The fact that my songs take a long time to write is no guarantee of their excellence.
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You have to keep cracking yourself open or you become a parody of yourself.
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I want to be paid for my work, not work for my pay.
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It’s a pity if someone… has to console himself for the wreck of his days with the notion that somehow his voice, his work embodies the deepest, most obscure, freshest, rawest oyster of reality in the unfathomable refrigerator of the heart’s ocean, but I am such a one, and there you have it.
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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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A community is an alibi for the failure of individual love.
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It doesn't matter what you do because it's going to happen anyway.
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When you're younger, you do have that thing that you were talking about where the mouth goes dry. I mean you have reactions, and you do fall in love.
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I’ve seen the nations rise and fall. I’ve heard their stories, heard them all, but love’s the only engine of survival.
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