Aging Quote by Bruce Cockburn

“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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Wave the flag, wave the Bible, wave your sex or your business degree, whatever you want, just don't wave that thing at me.

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