576 Quotes by Leonard Cohen

There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn't.

When we are touched by a song, it is because the artist cannot hide himself.

If you're squeezed for information, / that's when you've got to play it dumb: / You just say you're out there waiting / for the miracle, for the miracle to come.

I can't run no more with that lawless crowd while the killers in high places say their prayers out loud. But they've summoned, they've summoned up a thundercloud and they're going to hear from me. Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That's how the light gets in.

And this is our time-keeper, with a passion for percussion

Games are nature's most beautiful creation

It is painful to recall a past intensity, to estimate your distance from the Belsen heap, to make your peace with numbers. Just to get up each morning is to make a kind of peace.

[Europe has] this tradition of self revelation in popular music. We have it here - it's called Country Western Music... I think that's where the deeper and more complex subjects are treated.

..you wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent