Canadian - Musician | September 21, 1934 - November 7, 2016
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
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I continually blacken pages and scribble away, so I always have a number of songs that are half-finished.
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The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
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And most people have a woman in their heart, most men have a woman in their heart and most women have a man in their heart.
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In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.
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My reputation as a ladies' man was a joke. It caused me to laugh bitterly through the 10,000 nights I spent alone.
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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.
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If I knew where the good songs came from, I'd go there more often.
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Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.
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I had girlfriends who really irritated me by their devotion to the Beatles. I didn't begrudge them their interest, and there were songs like 'Hey Jude' that I could appreciate. But they didn't seem to be essential to the kind of nourishment that I craved.
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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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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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