Leonard Cohen Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“My two great heroes are W. B. Yeats and Fernando Garcia Lorca.”

“I had the title poet, and maybe I was one for a while. Also, the title singer was kindly accorded me, even though I could barely carry a tune.”

“We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're paid for it.”

“This is the most challenging activity that humans get into, which is love. You know, where we have the sense that we can't live without love. That life has very little meaning without love.”

“I don't think you can write novels on the road. You need a certain stability.”

“If I knew where the good songs came from, I'd go there more often.”

“To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of itself.”

“And I had not much of a voice. I didn't play that great guitar either.”

“I can work on a verse for a very long time before realising it's not any good and then, and only then, can I discard it.”

“My sense of proprietorship has been so weak that actually I didn't pay attention and I lost the copyrights on a lot of the songs.”