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 CohenI 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 CohenYour heart opens and of course you're completely panicked because you're used to guarding this organ with your life.
Leonard CohenWe are awakening from the dream of isolation, from the dream of loneliness, and it's a terrible shock.
Leonard CohenHis vision was just outstanding. If you think of him in the same way as Pele then you would come close.
Leonard CohenI felt like if any two people had any kind of sexual affinity for each other they had to sleep with each other immediately, otherwise it was a terrible betrayal and waste...Fortunately, I'm relieved of those obsessions now. It's really wonderful. It's really wonderful not feeling you have to sleep with everybody.
Leonard Cohen