3,653 Quotes About Song

  • Author Kurt Cobain
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    People ask me what's like to hear our song on the radio. I don't know, I don't listen to the radio

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  • Author Leonard Cohen
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    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.

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  • Author Leonard Cohen
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    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.

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  • Author Leonard Cohen
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    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.

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  • Author Leonard Cohen
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    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.

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  • Author Leonard Cohen
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    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.

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  • Author Leonard Cohen
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    Women stand for the objective world for a man. They stand for the thing that you're not and that's what you always reach for in a song.

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  • Author Leonard Cohen
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    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.

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