Bruce Cockburn Quotes
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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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Most of the time, our deeper, stronger feelings are things we all have in common.
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Once you tie anger and ego together then you're a monster, at least a latent one. So you have to be able to separate those things before you are going to be able to do anything useful with your anger.
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In between effect and cause and just beyond the range of normal sight, this glittering joker was dancing in the dragon's jaws.
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I watch the confusion of friends all numb with love moving like stray dogs to the anthem of night long conversations of pulsing rhythms and random voltage voices in spite of themselves graceful as these raindrops creeping spermlike across the car window.
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Everything that makes a society run is broken in Iraq. The only real structure is the people's own sense of themselves as Iraqis, which was very strong. They're a proud people, and they trace their historic roots way, way back.
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Male female slave or free; peaceful or disorderly; maybe you and he will not agree; but you need him to show you new ways to see.
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I woke up one morning with this song in my head, and the opening line of the song: My name was Richard Nixon, only now I'm a girl.
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My models for graceful aging are guys like John Lee Hooker and Mississippi John Hurt, who never stopped working till they dropped, as I fully expect to be doing, and just getting better as musicians and as human beings.
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Everybody wants to see justice done, to somebody else.
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A sane person doesn't think war is a good idea.
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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.
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There is no gap between art and politics.
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I can't imagine my life any other way than it's been.
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Beautiful rocks - beautiful grass Beautiful soil where they both combine Beautiful river - covering sky Never thought of possession, but all this was mine.
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The trouble with normal is it only gets worse.
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I'm not a pacifist. I feel that there are situations where fighting is inescapable, but we don't go looking for those things.
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Since the early '80s, I've found myself in war zones in various parts of the world.
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It sounds strange to say it, but you can be in a war zone and have a lot of fun. Even though war is essentially pain on all sides, human beings have the capacity to enjoy themselves. The soldiers are mostly young people, full of enthusiasm and energy, and that's an exciting thing for an old guy like me.
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Sometimes the best map will not guide you, you can't see what's round the bend. Sometimes the road leads through dark places, sometimes the darkness is your friend
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When you know even for a moment That it's your time Then you can walk with the power Of a thousand generations
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Going to places like Honduras, Nicaragua, and various African countries you get to see very clearly what the cause and effect is. We finance the obnoxious elites in those countries and they exploit their people so we don't have to say that we're doing the exploiting but nevertheless we are benefiting from it.
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One day you're waiting for the sky to fall, The next you're dazzled by the beauty of it all.
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I wear my shadows where they're harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that should tell me I'm traveling toward light.
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Resisting the powers that be, we are keeping things from getting worse than they otherwise might be. And that effort is very much worthwhile.
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Little round planet in a big universe, sometimes it looks blessed, sometimes it looks cursed. Depends what you look at obviously, but even more it depends on the way that you see.
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Almost all the military personnel were wearing sunglasses. No Iraqis wear sunglasses. They really want to see your eyes. So immediately they can't trust the Americans.
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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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Abu Ghraib, as bad as it was, can't be compared to what Saddam was doing to people.
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