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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.
Leonard Cohen
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Leonard Cohen
Age: 82 †
Born: 1934
Born: September 21
Died: 2016
Died: November 7
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First of all nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
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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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Israel, and you who call yourself Israel, the Church that calls itself Israel, and the revolt that calls itself Israel, and every nation chosen to be a nation - none of these lands is yours, all of you are thieves of holiness, all of you at war with Mercy.
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His vision was just outstanding. If you think of him in the same way as Pele then you would come close.
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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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Coroner's inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn't been to the sea-shore in ten years.
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I think culture's always been violent, and it is something we find very entertaining. Not only does it reflect our social reality, but it also reflects our psychic reality.
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Everybody knows that the dice are loaded, Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed, Everybody knows that the war is over, Everybody knows the good guys lost.
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One is given to self-dramatization from time to time. I intend to live forever.
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Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chords when I knew five!
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The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.
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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 don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.
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It’s a depressing habit you have of loving to sneeze and of eating apples as if they were juicier for you and being the first one to exclaim how good the movie is. You depress people. We like apples too.
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Seriousness is the deepest pleasure we have.
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