Leonard Cohen Quotes About Songwriting
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Some people, it [songwriting] comes faster. Some people, it comes slower.
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Leonard Cohen
- Born: September 21, 1934
- Died: November 10, 2016
- Occupation: Singer-songwriter
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