Bruce Cockburn Quotes

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• If I try to understand what it means to be a Christian, I look at the two instructions that were given in the Bible that…
• Some people never see the light Till it shines thru bullet holes.
• Water of life is gonna flow again/changed from the blood of heroes and knaves/Word mercy's gonna have a new meaning/ when we are judged by…
• The trouble with normal is it only gets worse.
• 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.
• Gotta kick at the darkness til it bleeds daylight.
• 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…
• Everybody wants to see justice done, to somebody else.
• Beautiful rocks - beautiful grass Beautiful soil where they both combine Beautiful river - covering sky Never thought of possession, but all this was mine.
• All these years of thinking, ending up like this: In front of all this beauty, understanding nothing.
• One day you're waiting for the sky to fall, The next you're dazzled by the beauty of it all.
• Lord, spit on our eyes that we may see, how to wake up from this tragedy.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• I wanted to play rock and roll when I started playing. Nobody at that time ever thought about songwriting. You sang songs, that's all. You…
• 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…
• The second half of the '60s really was a kind of learning period, in terms of writing, for me.
• A sane person doesn't think war is a good idea.
• I can't imagine my life any other way than it's been.

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