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Leonard Cohen Quotes

Canadian - Musician | September 21, 1934 - November 7, 2016

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity.

Work Political Social Delicious Only

I didn't want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write.

Want Write Pay Paid Wanted I Write

I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group.

Myself Poetry Singing Group Jazz

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.

Life Depression Speak Anxiety Well

I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they know my life.

Life Man Reputation My Life Friends

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.

Attention Lost Pay Attention Pay Lot

Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is no affirmation of a deity.

Tradition Worship Affirmation Well

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

Great Voice Guitar Play Either Much

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

Road Think You Write Need Stability

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

Together Song Trying Always Bottom

I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. When he looks back over the body of his work and he's written poetry then let the verdict be that he's a poet.

Work Man Poetry Think End Body

I have a deep tribal sense. I grew up in a synagogue that my ancestors built. I sat in the third row. My family was decent. They were good people; they were handshake people. So I never had a sense of rebellion.

Family Good People Deep Good People

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