Leonard Cohen citáty (183 citátů, strana 6) | Citáty slavných osobností

1992
Zdroj: [Reynolds, Anthony, Leonard Cohen: Pozoruhodný život, Mladá fronta, Praha, 2012, 256, Klára Kolinská a Miroslav Jindra, 978-80-204-2400-6, 15, dále jen „Pozoruhodný život“]

Leonard Cohen: Citáty anglicky

“Rust rust rust
in the engines of love and time”

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Leonard Cohen kniha Flowers for Hitler

"Front Lawn", Flowers for Hitler (1964)

“Like any dealer he was watching for the card
that is so high and wild
he'll never need to deal another.
He was just some Joseph looking for a manger.”

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"The Stranger Song"
Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967)

“I told you when I came I was a stranger.”

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"The Stranger Song"
Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967)

“We're drinking and we're dancing
but there's nothing really happening.
The place is dead as Heaven on a Saturday night.”

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"Closing Time"
The Future (1992)

“Here I stand, I'm your man.”

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"I'm Your Man"
I'm Your Man (1988)

“People used to say my music was too difficult or too obscure, and I never set out to be difficult or obscure. I just set out to write what I felt as honestly as I could, and I am delighted when other people feel a part of themselves in the music.”

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As quoted in Los Angeles Times (24 September 1995)

“You can say that I've grown bitter but of this you can be sure.
The rich have got their channels in the bedrooms of the poor.
And there's a mighty Judgement coming
but I may be wrong…”

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"Tower Of Song"
I'm Your Man (1988)

“Now, I don't want to give you the impression that I'm a great musicologist, but I'm a lot better than what I was described as for a long, long time; you know, people said I only knew three chords when I knew five.”

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Interview with BBC Radio 1FM (1994)

“I feel that, you know, the enormous luck I've had in being able to make a living, and to never have had to have written one word that I didn't want to write, to be able to have satisfied that dictum I set for myself, which was not to work for pay, but to be paid for my work — just to be able to satisfy those standards that I set for myself has been an enormous privilege.”

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Interview with BBC Radio 1FM (1994)

“They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom
For trying to change the system from within
I'm coming now, I'm coming to reward them
First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin.”

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"First We Take Manhattan" (written in 1986) - Leonard Cohen video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTTC_fD598A - Jennifer Warnes & Leonard Cohen video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0rZ2CPCYBQ <br class="br">I'm Your Man (1988)

“I've seen the future, brother:
it is murder.”

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"The Future"
The Future (1992)

“God is alive. Magic is afoot. God is alive. Magic is afoot. God is afoot. Magic is alive. Alive is afoot. Magic never died. God never sickened. Many poor men lied. Many sick men lied. Magic never weakened. Magic never hid. Magic always ruled. God is afoot. God was ruler though his funeral lengthened. Though his mourners thickened Magic never fled…”

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Leonard Cohen kniha Beautiful Losers

Beautiful Losers (1966)

“This is the very contrary of dropping out. Most people can't wait to get home to their house or apartment and shut that door and turn on the TV. To me, that's dropping out.”

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On his living at a Zen center, as quoted in Los Angeles Times (24 September 1995)