Leonard Cohen Quotes
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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A lot of the players that I play with who are Canadian, they call me Patty. Before then, I never heard it. I didn't mind Patty.
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Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
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I like to come up with lots of different sounds. So the final version of a song might have been 10 completely different songs before we finally got it right.
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My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.
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I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.
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The characteristic feature of modernity is criticism: what is new is set over and against what is old, and it is this constant contrast that constitutes the continuity of tradition.
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I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.
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I went to the premier of 'Stardust,' which starred Michelle Pfeiffer. I nearly died when I saw her on the red carpet – she's so beautiful.
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The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
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At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
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If you want to learn about America, watch 'The Wire.' It's a profound piece of entertainment.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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Workplaces still operate like it's 1962 and one person is always at home, and they are not very good at adjusting for the fact that a majority of women work and take care of children.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.
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Well, my first languages are German and Spanish because I was brought up by a Spanish mother and a German father, so I always spoke both languages at home. I'm very thankful that I was brought up in a bilingual house.
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I heard the new film, 'Tangerine,' was filmed entirely on iPhones. No cameras were involved!
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I went to Berlin to study psychology but decided that I was more interested in music and started an R and B band.
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You know, if nobody knows who you are, nobody's going to buy your record.
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But I think it's more normal for my team to have no success than it is to win two consecutive European cups.
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Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.
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My philosophy is fundamentally sad, but I’m not a sad man, and I don’t believe I sadden anyone else. In other words, the fact that I don’t put my philosophy into practice saves me from its evil spell, or, rather, my faith in the human race is stronger then my intellectual analysis of it; there lies the fountain of youth in which my heart is continually bathing.
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May everyone live, And may everyone die. Hello, my love, And my love, Goodbye.
