Leonard Cohen Quotes About Singing

Quotes about: Singing

• Fare thee well my nightingale, I lived but to be near you. Thow you are singing somewhere still I can no longer hear you.

  Leonard Cohen

  Love, Singing, Thee

• Suzanne had a room on a waterfront street in the port of Montreal. Everything happened just as it was put down. She was the wife of a man I knew. Her hospitality was immaculate. Some months later I sang it for Judy Collins over the telephone. The publishing rights were lost in New York City, but it is probably appropriate that I don't own this song. Just the other day I heard some people singing it on a ship in the Caspian Sea.

  Leonard Cohen

  Song, New York, Men

• I'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 Cohen

  People, Guy, Singing

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group.

  Leonard Cohen

  Reading, Singing, Groups

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• Other people singing my songs is something that I've never been casual about. I've always been very touched by it and I always go into immediate critical suspension.

  Leonard Cohen

  Song, People, Singing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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