Author: Bruce Cockburn

Quotes

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.

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.

- Bruce Cockburn

I woke up one morning with this song in my head, and the opening line of the song is, 'My name was Richard Nixon, only now I'm a girl.'

I woke up one morning with this song in my head, and the opening line of the song is, 'My name was Richard Nixon, only now I'm a girl.'

- Bruce Cockburn

The second half of the '60s really was a kind of learning period, in terms of writing, for me.

The second half of the '60s really was a kind of learning period, in terms of writing, for me.

- Bruce Cockburn

If you don't keep learning and growing, you're going to stagnate.

If you don't keep learning and growing, you're going to stagnate.

- Bruce Cockburn

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'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.

- Bruce Cockburn

'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.

'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.

- Bruce Cockburn

There was a lot more music than the size of the place would indicate.

There was a lot more music than the size of the place would indicate.

- Bruce Cockburn

I can't imagine my life any other way than it's been.

I can't imagine my life any other way than it's been.

- Bruce Cockburn

A sane person doesn't think war is a good idea.

A sane person doesn't think war is a good idea.

- Bruce Cockburn

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