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There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.
Leonard Cohen
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Canadian
-
Musician
September 21
, 1934 -
November 7
, 2016
I like life on the road. It's a lot easier than civilian life. You kind of feel like you're in a motorcycle gang.
Leonard Cohen
Gang
,
Kind
,
Like
There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.
Leonard Cohen
Light
,
How
,
Crack
Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.
Leonard Cohen
Way
,
Act
,
Like
This world is full of conflicts and full of things that cannot be reconciled. But there are moments when we can... reconcile and embrace the whole mess, and that's what I mean by 'Hallelujah.'
Leonard Cohen
Embrace
,
Whole
,
Reconciled
There were times that I thought I was good looking.
Leonard Cohen
Thought
,
Times
,
Were
I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.
Leonard Cohen
Rain
,
Think
,
I Think
At a certain point, if you still have your marbles and are not faced with serious financial challenges, you have a chance to put your house in order. It's a cliche, but it's underestimated as an analgesic on all levels. Putting your house in order, if you can do it, is one of the most comforting activities, and the benefits of it are incalculable.
Leonard Cohen
Comforting
,
Benefits
Music is the emotional life of most people.
Leonard Cohen
Music
,
Most
,
Emotional Life
The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show.
Leonard Cohen
I Am
,
Running
,
Surer
I don't really understand that process called reincarnation but if there is such a thing I'd like to come back as my daughter's dog.
Leonard Cohen
Process
,
Understand
,
Like
Most of the time one is discouraged by the work, but now and again by some grace something stands out and invites you to work on it, to elaborate it or animate it in some way. It's a mysterious process.
Leonard Cohen
Process
,
Some
,
Elaborate
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
Leonard Cohen
Poetry
,
Evidence
,
Burning
When things get really bad, just raise your glass and stamp your feet and do a little jig. That's about all you can do.
Leonard Cohen
Bad
,
Feet
,
Glass
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
Deep
,
Rebellion
,
Handshake
Torah values are the ones that inform my life.
Leonard Cohen
My Life
,
Values
,
Inform
One of the reasons I'm on tour is to meet people. I consider it a reconnaissance. You know, I consider myself like in a military operation. I don't feel like a citizen.
Leonard Cohen
Citizen
,
Reasons
,
Like
And I had not much of a voice. I didn't play that great guitar either.
Leonard Cohen
Voice
,
Play
,
Either
My mind was always very cluttered, so I took great pains to simplify my environment, because if my environment were half as cluttered as my mind, I wouldn't be able to make it from room to room.
Leonard Cohen
Mind
,
Always
,
Very
When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you.
Leonard Cohen
Stop
,
About
,
Repose
The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
Leonard Cohen
World
,
Last
,
Superiority
My two great heroes are W. B. Yeats and Federico García Lorca.
Leonard Cohen
Heroes
,
Two
,
Yeats
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
Sense
,
Many
,
Occurred
The basic function of popular music is to create an environment for courting, lovemaking, and doing the dishes. It's useful because it addresses the heart in the midst of all these activities, and it will always be useful in this very important way.
Leonard Cohen
Doing
,
Very
,
Lovemaking
The fact that my songs take a long time to write is no guarantee of their excellence.
Leonard Cohen
Long Time
,
Fact
,
Take
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
Other
,
Like
,
Depict
I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense that nothing goes well, that pleasure is unavailable and all your strategies collapse.
Leonard Cohen
Pleasure
,
Strategies
,
Goes
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