When we are touched by a song, it is because the artist cannot hide himself. Leonard Cohen More Quotes by Leonard Cohen More Quotes From Leonard Cohen We are ugly but we have the music. Leonard Cohen ugly Pay attention to the cracks, because that's where the light gets in. Leonard Cohen crackslightattention ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars Leonard Cohen machinerystarsordinary I don't have any spiritual strategy. Leonard Cohen strategyspiritual 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. Leonard Cohen elementspiecespolitical 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 guitarplayfun It's time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again. Leonard Cohen crylaughing I fought against the bottle, but I had to do it drunk. Took my diamond to the pawn shop, but that don't make it junk. Leonard Cohen junkdrunkbottles even damnation is poisoned with rainbows. Leonard Cohen damnationrainbow Out of the thousands who are known or who want to be known as poets, maybe one or two are genuine and the rest are fakes, hanging around the sacred precincts, trying to look like the real thing. Leonard Cohen fakerealtwo From bitter searching of the heart, quickened with passion and with pain we rise to play a greater part this is the faith from which we start. Leonard Cohen passionpainheart And I'll dance with you in Vienna, I'll be wearing a river's disguise. The hyacinth wild on my shoulder my mouth on the dew of your thighs. And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook, with the photographs there and the moss. And I'll yield to the flood of your beauty, my cheap violin and my cross. Leonard Cohen yieldmusicrivers And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook, with the photographs there and the moths. Leonard Cohen scrapbookingviennasoul You can do anything you want to [ in ashram] if you can find the time. It's a very rigorous day. It starts at 2:30 in the morning and often doesn't end until midnight, so if you can actually find a moment to have a drink or a smoke, you're quite welcome to, as long as it doesn't interfere with your capacity to follow the schedule. Leonard Cohen midnightmorninglong The Maestro says it's Mozart but it sounds like bubble gum when you're waiting for the miracle to come. Leonard Cohen miraclewaitingsound Deprivation is the mother of poetry. Leonard Cohen deprivationmother Don't dwell on what has passed away or what is yet to be. Leonard Cohen passed-awayphilosophy There's no concession to the fact that Dylan might be a more sophisticated singer than Whitney Houston, that he's probably the most sophisticated singer we've had in a generation. Nobody is identifying our popular singers like a Matisse or Picasso. Dylan's a Picasso - that exuberance, range, and assimilation of the whole history of music. Leonard Cohen houstonsingersmight I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree. Leonard Cohen lilacarmstree Well I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one. Leonard Cohen wells
