Leonard Cohen Quotes About Songs

• You live your life as if it's real.......a thousand kisses deep

  Leonard Cohen

  Life, Song, Real

  Canción: A Thousand Kisses Deep, Álbum: Ten New Songs, 2001

• There are always meaningful songs for somebody. People are doing their courting, people are finding their wives, people are making babies, people are washing their dishes, people are getting through the day, with songs that we may find insignificant. But their significance is affirmed by others. There’s always someone affirming the significance of a song by taking a woman into his arms or by getting through the night. That’s what dignifies the song. Songs don’t dignify human activity. Human activity dignifies the song.

  Leonard Cohen

  Meaningful, Song, Baby

  "My favourite word in songwriting history is 'that" by Laura Barton, www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2007.

• Songs don’t dignify human activity. Human activity dignifies the song.

  Leonard Cohen

  Song, Humans, Human Activity

  Leonard Cohen (2014). “Leonard Cohen on Leonard Cohen”, p.341, Omnibus Press

• Cuando una canción nos conmueve, es porque el artista no puede ocultarse.

  Leonard Cohen

  Canción, Artista, Tocado

• Estamos en un mundo en el que hay hambruna y la gente esquiva balas y le sacan las uñas en las mazmorras, así que me resulta muy difícil valorar el trabajo que hago para escribir una canción. Sí, trabajo duro, pero ¿comparado con qué?

  Leonard Cohen

  Song, Hard Work, Writing

  "Leonard Cohen: 'All I've got to put in a song is my own experience'" by Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2012.

• I swear by this song and by all that I have done wrong, I will make it all up to thee.

  Leonard Cohen

  Song, Rock And Roll, Done

  Song: Bird On The Wire, 1969

• No one's ever done one of my songs badly. People say to me, "God, so-and-so wrecked that song." Well, I'm unaware of it. Anybody doing one of my tunes has earned my gratitude, and I don't get that many covers where I have the luxury to choose.

  Leonard Cohen

  Song, Gratitude, Luxury

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Para un hombre, las mujeres representan el mundo objetivo. Representan lo que tú no eres y eso es lo que siempre buscas en una canción.

  Leonard Cohen

  Song, Men, World

• If I knew where the good songs came from, I’d go there more often. It’s a mysterious condition. It’s much like the life of a Catholic nun. You’re married to a mystery.

  Leonard Cohen

  Song, Catholic, Mysterious

  Leonard Cohen (2014). “Leonard Cohen on Leonard Cohen”, p.348, Omnibus Press

• Suzanne tenía una habitación en una calle del puerto de Montreal. Todo sucedió tal y como lo contaron. Era la esposa de un hombre que yo conocía. Su hospitalidad fue inmaculada. Unos meses más tarde la canté para Judy Collins por teléfono. Los derechos de publicación se perdieron en New York, pero probablemente sea oportuno que esta canción no me pertenezca. El otro día oí a unas personas que la cantaban en un barco en el mar Caspio.

  Leonard Cohen

  Song, New York, Men

• I'd written a lot of songs with hummingbirds in them. None of them ever came to anything, but I did write a few lines last month. It went like this: 'Listen to the hummingbird whose wings you cannot see. Listen to the hummingbird, don't listen to me'.

  Leonard Cohen

  Song, Writing, Wings

• I'm writing all the time. And as the songs begin to coalesce, I'm not doing anything else but writing. I wish I were one of those people who wrote songs quickly. But I'm not. So it takes me a great deal of time to find out what the song is.

  Leonard Cohen

  Canción, Escritura, Gente

  Leonard Cohen (2014). “Leonard Cohen on Leonard Cohen”, p.346, Omnibus Press

• I think what we like about music - and what we like about art in general....is that enterprise that stops our minds from spinning. Because we're always all over the place. A good song, a good lyric is a movie: it will just focus and calm and confer significance on this completely bewildering reality that all of us live in.

  Leonard Cohen

  Song, Art, Reality

  "Leonard Cohen at 80". Interview with Mark Ellen, www.thetimes.co.uk. September 19, 2014.

• My friends are gone and my hair is grey. I ache in places I used to play. And I’m crazy for love but I’m not coming on. I’m just paying my rent every day in the tower of song.

  Leonard Cohen

  Song, Crazy, Hair

  Leonard Cohen (2008). “The Lyrics of Leonard Cohen: Enhanced Edition”, p.251, Omnibus Press

• I hope we [with Patrick Leonard] can come up with something orchestral with some spoken material. And I also, God willing, hope that perhaps another record of songs also might emerge, but one never knows.

  Leonard Cohen

  Song, Records, Might

• I've always held the song in high regard because songs have got me through so many sinks of dishes and so many humiliating courting events.

  Leonard Cohen

  Song, Events, Dishes

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

  Leonard Cohen

  Song, Bottom Of The Barrel, Trying

• I always loved those little creatures [hummingbird], always feel blessed when they appear nearby. There's a magical quality to them. I finally put one in a song.

  Leonard Cohen

  Song, Blessed, Quality

• A song, you know, you've got a tempo. You know,you've got something that is moving swiftly. You can't stop it, you know? Andit's designed to move swiftly from, you know, mouth to mouth, heart to heart,where a poem really speaks to something that has no time and that is - it's acompletely different perception.

  Leonard Cohen

  Song, Moving, Heart

• I would say the hummingbird really deserves the royalties on [some of my songs].

  Leonard Cohen

  Song, Royalty, Hummingbirds

• I think that any songwriter - and I think that Bob Dylan knows this more than all of us - you don't write the songs anyhow.

  Leonard Cohen

  Canción, Escritura, Pensamiento

• Other people singing my songs is something that I've never been casual about. I've always been very touched by it and I always go into immediate critical suspension.

  Leonard Cohen

  Canción, Gente, Cantar

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Mi sentido de la propiedad ha sido tan débil que en realidad no presté atención y perdí los derechos de autor de muchas de las canciones.

  Leonard Cohen

  Canción, Atención, Pagar

  Leonard Cohen (2014). “Leonard Cohen on Leonard Cohen”, p.684, Omnibus Press

• I've often said if I knew where the good songs came from, I'd go there more often.

  Leonard Cohen

  Song, Said, Ifs

• I know there is an eye that watches all of us. There is a judgment that weighs everything we do. And before this great force, which is greater than any government I stand in awe and I kneel in respect and it is to this great judgment that I dedicate this next song...

  Leonard Cohen

  Song, Eye, Government

  Leonard Cohen (2014). “Leonard Cohen on Leonard Cohen”, p.221, Omnibus Press

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