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Canadian
-
Musician
September 21
, 1934 -
November 7
, 2016
There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.
Leonard Cohen
Light
,
Everything
,
Crack
,
How
,
Gets
I like life on the road. It's a lot easier than civilian life. You kind of feel like you're in a motorcycle gang.
Leonard Cohen
Life
,
Motorcycle
,
Road
,
Feel
,
You
,
Kind
Music is the emotional life of most people.
Leonard Cohen
Life
,
Music
,
People
,
Emotional
,
Most
The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show.
Leonard Cohen
I Am
,
Older
,
Show
,
Get
,
Running
,
Am
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.
Leonard Cohen
Life
,
Love
,
Live
,
You
,
Know
,
Meaning
This world is full of conflicts and full of things that cannot be reconciled. But there are moments when we can... reconcile and embrace the whole mess, and that's what I mean by 'Hallelujah.'
Leonard Cohen
World
,
Moments
,
Embrace
,
Mean
,
Things
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
Leonard Cohen
Life
,
Poetry
,
Evidence
,
Your
,
Just
,
Well
There were times that I thought I was good looking.
Leonard Cohen
Good
,
Looking
,
Thought
,
Good Looking
Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.
Leonard Cohen
Faith
,
Compassion
,
Justice
,
True
,
Judges
We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out in dungeons so it's very hard for me to place any high value on the work that I do to write a song. Yeah, I work hard but compared to what?
Leonard Cohen
Work
,
Value
,
People
,
Work Hard
,
World
Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.
Leonard Cohen
You
,
Way
,
Act
,
Like
,
Soon
When things get really bad, just raise your glass and stamp your feet and do a little jig. That's about all you can do.
Leonard Cohen
Feet
,
You
,
Bad
,
Glass
,
Things
,
Little
At a certain point, if you still have your marbles and are not faced with serious financial challenges, you have a chance to put your house in order. It's a cliche, but it's underestimated as an analgesic on all levels. Putting your house in order, if you can do it, is one of the most comforting activities, and the benefits of it are incalculable.
Leonard Cohen
Challenges
,
You Can Do It
,
Chance
,
You
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.
Leonard Cohen
Dreams
,
People
,
Constitution
,
Land
A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.
Leonard Cohen
Love
,
Woman
,
Battle
,
Body
,
Watches
,
Her
If I knew where the good songs came from, I'd go there more often.
Leonard Cohen
Good
,
Go
,
More
,
Knew
,
Songs
,
Where
I can make a couple of good sandwiches: tuna salad and chopped egg salad. And Greek bean soup. I was a cook for my old Zen master for many years. So there were two or three dishes that he liked, you know. Teriyaki salmon, a few things.
Leonard Cohen
Good
,
You
,
Soup
,
Know
,
I Can
,
Three
The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
Leonard Cohen
World
,
Sleeping
,
Sense
,
Superiority
I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense that nothing goes well, that pleasure is unavailable and all your strategies collapse.
Leonard Cohen
Life
,
Depression
,
Speak
,
Anxiety
,
Sense
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.
Leonard Cohen
Rain
,
Waiting
,
Myself
,
Feel
,
Think
,
Skin
We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're paid for it.
Leonard Cohen
Music
,
Fun
,
Guitar
,
Play
,
Nobody
,
Now
I continually blacken pages and scribble away, so I always have a number of songs that are half-finished.
Leonard Cohen
Always
,
Songs
,
Away
,
Number
,
Scribble
I don't really understand that process called reincarnation but if there is such a thing I'd like to come back as my daughter's dog.
Leonard Cohen
Dog
,
Daughter
,
Process
,
Back
,
Understand
My mind was always very cluttered, so I took great pains to simplify my environment, because if my environment were half as cluttered as my mind, I wouldn't be able to make it from room to room.
Leonard Cohen
Great
,
Mind
,
Environment
,
Simplify
,
Room
We're always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who've closed down. And there are times in one's life when one has to close down just to regroup.
Leonard Cohen
Life
,
Joy
,
People
,
Sadness
,
Down
,
Always
Success is survival.
Leonard Cohen
Success
,
Survival
,
Success Is
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