Leonard Cohen Quotes About Songwriting

Quotes about: Songwriting

• 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'm writing all the time. And as the songs begin to coalesce, I'm not doing anything else but writing. I wish I were one of those people who wrote songs quickly. But I'm not. So it takes me a great deal of time to find out what the song is.

  Leonard Cohen

  Song, Writing, People

  Leonard Cohen (2014). “Leonard Cohen on Leonard Cohen”, p.346, Omnibus Press

• I listen to the radio and I like all kinds of music, you know, but I like to hear from people who have been there. Hank Williams has been there.

  Leonard Cohen

  People, Radio, Kind

• Some people, it [songwriting] comes faster. Some people, it comes slower.

  Leonard Cohen

  People, Faster, Songwriting

• I've always held the song in high regard because songs have got me through so many sinks of dishes and so many humiliating courting events.

  Leonard Cohen

  Song, Events, Dishes

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