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The basic function of popular...

The basic function of popular music is to create an environment for courting, lovemaking, and doing the dishes. It's useful because it addresses the heart in the midst of all these activities, and it will always be useful in this very important way.

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I think that Bob Dylan knows ...

I think that Bob Dylan knows this more than all of us: you don't write the songs anyhow. So if you're lucky, you can keep the vehicle healthy and responsive over the years. If you're lucky, your own intentions have very little to do with this.

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I don't think you can write n...

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

Leonard Cohen 302 quotes

You have to keep cracking you...

You have to keep cracking yourself open or you become a parody of yourself.

Leonard Cohen 302 quotes

Everybody knows that the boat...

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.

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I loved you for a long, long ...

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

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Your heart opens and of cours...

Your heart opens and of course you're completely panicked because you're used to guarding this organ with your life.

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It's the notion that there is...

It's the notion that there is no perfection - that there is a broken world and we live with broken hearts and broken lives but still there is no alibi for anything. On the contrary, you have to stand up and say hallelujah under those circumstances.

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Fare thee well my nightingale...

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 302 quotes

I’ve seen the nations rise an...

I’ve seen the nations rise and fall. I’ve heard their stories, heard them all, but love’s the only engine of survival.

Leonard Cohen 302 quotes

To keep our hearts open is pr...

To keep our hearts open is probably the most urgent responsibility you have as you get older.

Leonard Cohen 302 quotes

Well, you know, there's depre...

Well, you know, there's depression and depression. What I mean by depression in my own case is that depression isn't just the blues. It's not just like I have a hangover in the weekend ... the girl didn't show up or something like that. It isn't that. It's not really depression, it's a kind of mental violence which stops you from functioning properly from one moment to the next. You lose something somewhere and suddenly you're gripped by a kind of angst of the heart and of the spirit.

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Dance me to your beauty with ...

Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove Dance me to the end of love

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I don't think there's any dif...

I don't think there's any difference between a crush and profound love. I think the experience is that you dissolve your sentries and your battalions for a moment and you really do see that there is this unfixed free-flowing energy of emotion and thought between people, that it really is there.

Leonard Cohen 302 quotes

The fact that my songs take a...

The fact that my songs take a long time to write is no guarantee of their excellence.

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Most of the time one is disco...

Most of the time one is discouraged by the work, but now and again by some grace something stands out and invites you to work on it, to elaborate it or animate it in some way. It's a mysterious process.

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My sense of proprietorship ha...

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.

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I always felt I was scraping ...

I always felt I was scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to get a song together.

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There's always a group of son...

There's always a group of songs that I'm working at. Some of them are 10 years old, and some of them are just a few weeks old. I'm always trying to adjust these songs to some position where I can bring them to completion.

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Music is the emotional life o...

Music is the emotional life of most people.

Leonard Cohen 302 quotes

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