Leonard Cohen Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• I heard of a man who says words so beautifully that if he only speaks their name women give themselves to him. If I am dumb beside your body while silence blossoms like tumors on our lips it is because I hear a man climb stairs and clear his throat outside our door.

  Leonard Cohen

  Men, Doors, Names

  Leonard Cohen “Atras Das Linhas Inimigas De Meu Amor”, 7Letras

• Everybody knows that you've been faithful, give or take a night or two.

  Leonard Cohen

  Night, Two, Giving

  Song: Everybody Knows, Album: I'm Your Man, 1988

• I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a kind of dangerous description. It's for others; it's for others to use.

  Leonard Cohen

  Writing, Giving, Use

• 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.

  Leonard Cohen

  Long, People, Giving

  BBC Radio 1FM Interview, 1994.

• Anyone who's been a heavy drinker and heavy smoker and has the good future to survive that and give it up knows what a very different kind of daily existence one has. I was smoking a couple of packs of cigarettes a day. And I was drinking heavily on tours.

  Leonard Cohen

  Couple, Drinking, Giving

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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