Leonard Cohen Quotes About Writing

• The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.

  Leonard Cohen

  Writing, Cutting, Shining

  Leonard Cohen (2014). “Leonard Cohen on Leonard Cohen”, p.355, Omnibus Press

• La poesía es sólo la prueba de la vida. Si tu vida arde bien, la poesía es sólo la ceniza.

  Leonard Cohen

  Writing, Poetry, Ashes

  "My favourite word in songwriting history is 'that'" by Laura Barton, www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2007.

• 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.

  Leonard Cohen

  Writing, People, Obscure

  "Telling It on the Mountain : Although Leonard Cohen has retreated to a Zen center to write music and poetry, a tribute album being released this week could bring new fans". Interview with Robert Hilburn, articles.latimes.com. September 24, 1995.

• Estamos en un mundo en el que hay hambruna y la gente esquiva balas y le sacan las uñas en las mazmorras, así que me resulta muy difícil valorar el trabajo que hago para escribir una canción. Sí, trabajo duro, pero ¿comparado con qué?

  Leonard Cohen

  Song, Hard Work, Writing

  "Leonard Cohen: 'All I've got to put in a song is my own experience'" by Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2012.

• I didn't want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write.

  Leonard Cohen

  Writing, Want, Pay

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

• I'd written a lot of songs with hummingbirds in them. None of them ever came to anything, but I did write a few lines last month. It went like this: 'Listen to the hummingbird whose wings you cannot see. Listen to the hummingbird, don't listen to me'.

  Leonard Cohen

  Song, Writing, Wings

• 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

  Canción, Escritura, Gente

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

• I have to finish it in order to know whether it deserves to survive.

  Leonard Cohen

  Writing, Order, Knows

• It's four in the morning, the end of december I'm writing you now just to see if you're better.

  Leonard Cohen

  Morning, Writing, Four

  Song: Famous Blue Raincoat, 1971

• No creo que se puedan escribir novelas en la carretera. Necesitas cierta estabilidad.

  Leonard Cohen

  Escribir, Pensar, Necesidades

  "'I have been satirised as suicidal and self-indulgent' - a classic Leonard Cohen interview from the vaults". Interview with Mike Jahn, www.theguardian.com. November 29, 2011.

• It just takes a long time for me [to write a song]. I'm very slow. And it comes, kind of, by dribbles and drops.

  Leonard Cohen

  Canción, Escribir, Largo

• My page was too white
  My ink was too thin
  The day wouldn't write
  What the night pencilled in.

  Leonard Cohen

  Writing, Night, White

• 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.

  Leonard Cohen

  Writing, Luck, Want

  BBC Radio 1FM Interveiw, 1994.

• Siempre he pensado que la poesía es el veredicto que otros dan a cierto tipo de escritura. Llamarse poeta es una descripción peligrosa. Es para que otros la utilicen.

  Leonard Cohen

  Writing, Giving, Use

• I think that any songwriter - and I think that Bob Dylan knows this more than all of us - you don't write the songs anyhow.

  Leonard Cohen

  Canción, Escritura, Pensamiento

• The fact that my songs take a long time to write is no guarantee of their excellence.

  Leonard Cohen

  Canción, Escribir, Largo

  "Leonard Cohen: giving Nobel to Bob Dylan like 'pinning medal on Everest'". www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2016.

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