... i didn't fall in love of course it's never up to you but she was walking back and forth and i was passing through
Leonard CohenI am not the one who loves - It's love that chooses me. When hatred with his package comes, you forbid delivery...
Leonard CohenI've never thought of myself as a singer anyway. . . I've been free from those considerations because so many people over the years told me I don't have a voice. I kind of bought that. I never thought that much about it to begin with. I knew I didn't have one of the great voices. As my Damon Runyanesque lawyer used to say, "none of you guys can sing. If I want to hear singing, I'll go to the Metropolitan Opera."
Leonard CohenItโs a pity if someoneโฆ has to console himself for the wreck of his days with the notion that somehow his voice, his work embodies the deepest, most obscure, freshest, rawest oyster of reality in the unfathomable refrigerator of the heartโs ocean, but I am such a one, and there you have it.
Leonard Cohen