Words matter. These are the best Bruce Cockburn Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
‘Each One Lost’ I wrote the day after I got home. My week in Afghanistan was a very short trip, but it was a powerful experience.
I like to think that if it hadn’t gone as well as it has, if I wasn’t able to make a living off of playing music, I would still be playing the music. But, of course, I wouldn’t likely have had the opportunity to travel, and a lot of the places have inspired songs.
I’d always loved poetry and I’d always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn’t thought of putting the two together until around that time.
I’m not a pacifist. I feel that there are situations where fighting is inescapable, but we don’t go looking for those things.
All I ever thought was, ‘I’m going to do this as long as I can, and if I can’t get paid at it, I’ll be a bum doing it.’ And so, here I am.
‘Gifts’ was just a short little one-verse song that I used to close shows in the ’60s.
It’s a phobia I have. I never assume I’m going to be able to write another album after I finish one.
I remember when the idea of living to be 40 seemed absurd.
If you don’t keep learning and growing, you’re going to stagnate.
I did a lot of writing for a lot of different kinds of bands that I was in and out of during those five years and that left me with a little body of songs that I liked better when I played alone, so I ended up going out solo and very soon made my first album.
The trouble with normal is it always gets worse.
I can’t imagine my life any other way than it’s been.
If I try to understand what it means to be a Christian, I look at the two instructions that were given in the Bible that are paramount, and those are to love God with all your heart and mind, and to love your neighbor as yourself. That’s it.
I wear my shadows where they’re harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that should tell me I’m travelling toward light.
The second half of the ’60s really was a kind of learning period, in terms of writing, for me.
Since the early ’80s, I’ve found myself in war zones in various parts of the world.
A sane person doesn’t think war is a good idea. I’m not a pacifist. I feel that there are situations where fighting is inescapable, but we don’t go looking for those things.
