Bruce Cockburn Quotes About Writing

• 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.

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• 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.

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• Here's Iraq, where irrigation was invented, where law was invented, where writing was invented. All these things that we consider necessities of civilization started there. And the people who live there damn well know that.

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  Source: progressive.org

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

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• I always write the lyrics first. There are one or two exceptions over the years, but that's pretty much the way it's been. The process of applying music to words is a bit like scoring a film. You've got imagery.

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