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. — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
It sounds strange to say it, but you can be in a war zone and have a lot of fun. Even though war is… — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
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… — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
My models for graceful aging are guys like John Lee Hooker and Mississippi John Hurt, who never stopped working till they dropped, as I… — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
'Gifts' was just a short little one-verse song that I used to close shows in the '60s. — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
Music itself isn't enough to completely wear down my stash of anger. And I don't have all that much more to be angry about than anyone else. It's not like I was abused as a kid or anything. I had a pretty comfortable childhood with parents who took good care of me. But resentment exists, and some of it goes… — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share
In between effect and cause and just beyond the range of normal sight, this glittering joker was dancing in the dragon's jaws. — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
When you know even for a moment That it's your time Then you can walk with the power Of a thousand generations — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
A number of Iraqis told us they had welcomed the U.S. forces as liberators initially but in the intervening months, they had come to… — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
The people who have impressed me most - and the closest I've come to having heroes - are the people who have devoted their… — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
Sometimes I catch myself doing something that I've already done. The more I've done, the more that's likely to happen. Then I just throw… — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
Anger is energy, and you've got to find a place to put it that works for you. — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
Wave the flag, wave the Bible, wave your sex or your business degree, whatever you want, just don't wave that thing at me. — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
