Leonard Cohen Quotes

I'm certainly not a trained singer. The only place I could probably carry a tune is my shower.

The very first time I had Whitney Houston on my show, however many years ago, I thought, "You are 'the voice.'" You are the voice, that was my name for you.

If I went on 'American Idol,' I would definitely be kicked out immediately.

I was never going to give Mariah Carey any competition.

I'm not bad at singing - at least in the shower.

We are in the entertainment business. This should be fun. We are musicians; we don't save lives. We shouldn't... we shouldn't take ourselves too seriously or be revered that much.

I'm definitely not a song-and-dance guy, and if you've ever heard me sing, you would understand that, 'No, maybe that's not your thing.'

I have one of the worst voices in the history of recorded time.

People tell me I'm like the country version of Justin Timberlake. Actually, the other day someone told me I was an unathletic version of Justin Timberlake, and I was like, 'I'll take that.'

At John Schlesinger's funeral at a synagogue in St John's Wood some years ago the person I stood next to said to me encouragingly, 'Come on, Stephen - you're not singing. Have a go!' 'Believe me, Paul, you don't want me to,' I said. Besides, I was having a much better time listening to him. 'No. Go on!' So I joined in the chorus. 'You're right,' Paul McCartney conceded. 'You can't sing.

Well, when I was six years old I decided, not that I was going to be, but with my usual modesty, that I was a writer.

I used to be a folk singer, but I was... dreadful. I had a voice like a goose farting in the fog.

Here lies the body of my good horse, The General. For years he bore me around the circuit of my practice and all that time he never made a blunder. Would that his master could say the same.

I always said that I'm not the best singer in the world, just the loudest.

I never pretended to have a great voice. It works and I can carry a tune. If you have a good song, that's about all that's required.

Today Mitt Romney is 68 years old. It's kind of sad, a 68-year-old guy with no job, no future - wait a minute, that's me.

Maintain a sense of humor. People who take themselves too seriously are power-crazy. If they win it will be haircuts for all. Beware of power freaks.

I hope to God I don't win an Oscar tomorrow night. It would really depress me if I did. I really don't deserve it. It wasn't that important a part anyhow.

I have no illusions about my looks. I think my face is funny.

I was born modest; not all over, but in spots.

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.

My God, I'm four hundred years old and the most I can do is look three hundred.

I am a beau in nothing but my books.

I'm not the comic of the generation, I'm not even the funniest guy in my family.

As we Wizards go, I'm pretty harmless.