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Bruce Cockburn [1945-0] Canadian

Rank: 104
Musician, Singer-songwriter

Bruce Douglas Cockburn OC is a Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist. His song styles range from folk to jazz-influenced rock and his lyrics cover a broad range of topics that reveal a passion for human rights, environmental issues, politics, and spirituality.

Poetry, War

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A sane person doesn't think war is a good idea. I'm not a pacifist. I feel that there are situations where fighting is inescapable, but we don't go looking for those things.	War	101
I wear my shadows where they're harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that should tell me I'm travelling toward light.		102
There are some decision-makers in the world whose version of sanity is a little different from what I consider the right one.		103
I'm not a pacifist. I feel that there are situations where fighting is inescapable, but we don't go looking for those things.		104
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.	Poetry	105
It's a phobia I have. I never assume I'm going to be able to write another album after I finish one.		106
The trouble with normal is it always gets worse.		107
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 are paramount, and those are to love God with all your heart and mind, and to love your neighbor as yourself. That's it.		108
I woke up one morning with this song in my head, and the opening line of the song is, 'My name was Richard Nixon, only now I'm a girl.'		109
I remember when the idea of living to be 40 seemed absurd.		110
All I ever thought was, 'I'm going to do this as long as I can, and if I can't get paid at it, I'll be a bum doing it.' And so, here I am.		111
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.		112
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 sang other people's songs. That's all there were.		113
The second half of the '60s really was a kind of learning period, in terms of writing, for me.		114
There was a lot more music than the size of the place would indicate.		115
I can't imagine my life any other way than it's been.		116
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.		117
Since the early '80s, I've found myself in war zones in various parts of the world.		118
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.		119
A sane person doesn't think war is a good idea.		120
'Each One Lost' I wrote the day after I got home. My week in Afghanistan was a very short trip, but it was a powerful experience.		121
'Gifts' was just a short little one-verse song that I used to close shows in the '60s.		122
If you don't keep learning and growing, you're going to stagnate.		123
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 call a spade a spade.		124

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