Leonard Cohen Quotes

We would turn everything into songs in those days.

A song can take you to a special time in your life.

Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.

I definitely associate songs with the places that I've been.

My favorite songs are my favorite songs because they just feel like a certain moment, or a certain photo, just a snapshot for whatever three or four minutes the song is.

Time has passed through me and become a song.

Every one of those old songs like "What's My Age Again?" and "All the Small Things" is like a tattoo or a scrapbook or an old photograph. There are just songs that define certain moments in your life. Everyone has a song that got them through a bad breakup or they put on and it made them feel like they wanted to go out and kick the world's ass with their friends on a weekend. Those songs still feel like that to me.

Sometimes I just play the theme from Arthur. It reminds me of my childhood in New York and I just love it.

Music is the language of the angels. You can hear just one or two chords, one or two notes of a song, and bam - you're right back there, you're right back in that moment, you're back in that day, you're back at that prom, you're back in the car.

I took the 'Seinfeld' tour of New York once - and if I think about it too hard, my brain explodes.

The perfect pop song is about creating a memory.

When I went to Munich, I was perhaps a little too young.

When I was up in New York, the first record my parents bought me was the Terror Squad record with 'Lean Back.'

I've gotten to see the world and play music with my friends.

The best New York in the world is driving down the [Pacific Coast Highway] listening to the Velvet Underground. That's the best time I've ever been to New York.

Do you remember Italy?

Nothing recalls the past like music.

I hate to think that all my current experiences will someday become stories with no point.

I associate times with certain music. It still is that for me. It's telling the story of our lives.

Memory is the basis of every journey.

When you write a song about a place, you are writing a song about a place that might be in a hundred years, or a place that has been, or that was - in your imagination. I think that also embodies the American spirit. You are looking for what you can call "a place."

When we travel, we are like a film at the moment of exposure; it is memory that will develop it.

Songs are often written by people who are witnesses to history.

Music… is a memory bank for finding one’s way about the world.

I recall my fleeting instants in Savannah as the taste of a cup charged to the brim.