Leonard Quotes

I used to always fight for human rights. I still fight for Leonard Peltier, who's spent 35 years in jail for a crime he didn't commit.

When I was filming the Marilyn Monroe movie, I was listening to a lot of Leonard Cohen.

My teacher, my great cello teacher Leonard Rose, was such a great cellist, and nurturing man, very patient. But I grew up not only admiring him, but obviously Casals, Rostrotovich, Jacqueline du Pre, and many others, including many of my peers and contemporaries.

Leonard Chess passed, and that was the end of the Chess label for that time.

Ray Leonard was more of a favorite than Thomas Hearns that night.

I am a huge Leonard Cohen person.

I laugh when Floyd Mayweather says that if he went back in time he would beat us all. I'll tell you this: if he was in the same era as Hagler and Hearns and Leonard and me, I don't think he would be such a big name. There is too much talk.

Sugar Ray Leonard was as close as anyone came after Ali to being Ali, but he wasn't Ali.

I love Elmore Leonard. To me, True Romance is basically like an Elmore Leonard movie.

Even though the outcome wasn't the way it should have been, publicly I still feel in my heart I won the Sugar Ray Leonard fight.

My friends and I took songwriting very, very seriously. My hero was and still is Bob Dylan, but also people like Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell and that whole generation.