Quote

I think what we like about music - and what we like about art in general....is that enterprise that stops our minds from spinning. Because we're always all over the place. A good song, a good lyric is a movie: it will just focus and calm and confer significance on this completely bewildering reality that all of us live in.

Leonard Cohen

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Leonard Cohen
Age: 82 †
Born: 1934
Born: September 21
Died: 2016
Died: November 7
Film Actor
Lyricist
Musician
Novelist
Pianist
Poet
Record Producer
Screenwriter
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Street Artist
Writer
Leonard Norman Cohen
Jikan
Thinking
Place
Calm
Bewildering
Like
Reality
Minds
Confer
Music
General
Lyric
Live
Completely
Existential
Mind
Focus
Spinning
Good
Movie
Stops
Always
Song
Significance
Think
Art
Enterprise

More quotes by Leonard Cohen

Image
As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armour themselves against wonder.
Leonard Cohen
Image
I swear by this song and by all that I have done wrong, I will make it all up to thee.
Leonard Cohen
Image
In streams of light I clearly saw The dust you seldom see, Out of which the Nameless makes A Name for one like me... All busy in the sunlight The flecks did float and dance, And I was tumbled up with them In formless circumstance.
Leonard Cohen
Image
How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings
Leonard Cohen
Image
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.
Leonard Cohen
Image
Everybody knows the dice are loaded.
Leonard Cohen
Image
After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.
Leonard Cohen
Image
You can say that I've grown bitter but of this you can be sure. The rich have get their channels in the bedrooms of the poor. And there's a mighty Judgement coming but I may be wrong.
Leonard Cohen
Image
To keep our hearts open is probably the most urgent responsibility you have as you get older.
Leonard Cohen
Image
The less I was of who I was, the better I felt.
Leonard Cohen
Image
I alwaysthought of myself as a competent, minor poet. I know who I'm up against.
Leonard Cohen
Image
Does anybody have a cigarette? I'm looking forward to that first smoke. I've been looking forward to [it] for about 30 years.
Leonard Cohen
Image
His vision was just outstanding. If you think of him in the same way as Pele then you would come close.
Leonard Cohen
Image
No one's ever done one of my songs badly. People say to me, God, so-and-so wrecked that song. Well, I'm unaware of it. Anybody doing one of my tunes has earned my gratitude, and I don't get that many covers where I have the luxury to choose.
Leonard Cohen
Image
You lose your grip, and then you slip into the Masterpiece.
Leonard Cohen
Image
I hope we [with Patrick Leonard] can come up with something orchestral with some spoken material. And I also, God willing, hope that perhaps another record of songs also might emerge, but one never knows.
Leonard Cohen
Image
My reputation as a ladies' man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone.
Leonard Cohen
Image
Maybe there's a god above but the only thing I learned from love was how to shoot at somebody who outdrew you.
Leonard Cohen
Image
Fare thee well my nightingale, I lived but to be near you. Thow you are singing somewhere still I can no longer hear you.
Leonard Cohen
Image
I loved you for a long, long time I know this love is real It don't matter how it all went wrong That don't change the way I feel And I can't believe that time's Gonna heal this wound I'm speaking of There ain't no cure for love
Leonard Cohen