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Leonard Cohen
Canadian
Musician
Born:
Sep 21
,
1934
Died:
Nov 7
,
2016
Always
Life
Me
People
Sense
You
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I've always been into self-dramatization. I intend to live forever.
Leonard Cohen
Live
Always
Been
Forever
Intend
I was born in a suit.
Leonard Cohen
Born
Suit
And I had not much of a voice. I didn't play that great guitar either.
Leonard Cohen
Great
Guitar
Voice
Had
Either
Much
Play
In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.
Leonard Cohen
Truth
Dreams
Good
Truth Is
Caress
Absence
Good Works
Learned
Done
Works
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.
Leonard Cohen
Good
Family
People
Rebellion
Tribal
Good People
Sense
Synagogue
Ancestors
Never
Had
Built
Were
Up
Handshake
Decent
Grew
Deep
Sat
Row
Third
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.
Leonard Cohen
Lost
Sense
Pay
Pay Attention
Weak
Has-Been
Songs
Attention
Been
Lot
Actually
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
Music
Guitar
Unless
More
Picks
Nobody
Up
Than
Much
Paid
Used
Fun
Now
Play
Play Music
I've never sold widely enough to be able to relax about money. I had two kids and their mother to support and my own life. So there was never an option of cutting out.
Leonard Cohen
Life
Money
Mother
Relax
Own
Enough
Sold
Kids
Out
Able
About
My Own
Never
Had
Support
Option
Cutting
Widely
Two
Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chords when I knew five!
Leonard Cohen
Me
Three
Only
Cruel
Knew
Journalists
Said
Were
Very
Five
English
Chords
There were times that I thought I was good looking.
Leonard Cohen
Good
Thought
Looking
Good-Looking
Were
Times
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
Work
Political
Only
Delicious
Disagreeable
Piece
Any
Often
Subversion
Subversive
Social
Element
Activity
Startling
I've got beautiful reviews for all my books, and I'm very well thought of in the tiny circles that know me, but I'm really starving.
Leonard Cohen
Beautiful
Me
Thought
Starving
Books
Circles
Know
Well
Got
Reviews
Very
Tiny
Really
You can keep the body as well-oiled and receptive as possible, but whether you're actually going to be able to go for the long haul is really not your own choice.
Leonard Cohen
You
Long
Own
Possible
Able
Haul
Long Haul
Go
Going
Whether
Really
Choice
Body
Your
Keep
Actually
Receptive
The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.
Leonard Cohen
Depression
Psychic
Sense
Too
Way
Finds
Catastrophe
Term
Days
Occurred
Clinical
Conversations
Landscape
Many
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.
Leonard Cohen
Man
Woman
Heart
Women
People
Men
Most
I was 15 when I first became deeply touched by the rhythm and structure of words.
Leonard Cohen
Words
First
Touched
Structure
Became
Rhythm
Deeply
I had a very messianic childhood.
Leonard Cohen
Had
Very
Childhood
Some people care about their work lasting forever - I have little interest in it.
Leonard Cohen
Work
People
Care
Some People
Lasting
Some
About
Forever
Interest
Little
I don't have any sense or urgency about any of my writing, actually. I don't think mankind will be damaged if I don't put out a new album or a new book.
Leonard Cohen
Book
Writing
Will
Sense
Think
Out
About
Put
New
New Book
Any
Urgency
Mankind
Actually
Album
Damaged
There are writers who are great visionaries, who can depict huge movements - things like that. They're the great writers. I'm just the other kind.
Leonard Cohen
Great
Other
Visionaries
Kind
Writers
Like
Huge
Just
Depict
Movements
Who
Things
Torah values are the ones that inform my life.
Leonard Cohen
Life
Values
My Life
Torah
Inform
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