We're confronted with great darkness as a species right now as spiritual creatures on this planet. I don't think it's hopeless, and I don't want 'You've Never Seen Everything' to make people feel hopeless. But I think we've got to… — 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
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
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
'Gifts' was just a short little one-verse song that I used to close shows in the '60s. — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share
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… — 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
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
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
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
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
Anger is energy, and you've got to find a place to put it that works for you. — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share
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
All these years of thinking, ending up like this: In front of all this beauty, understanding nothing. — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share
