Bruce Cockburn
Bruce Cockburn
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...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth27 May 1945
CityOttawa, Canada
CountryCanada
call confronted creatures great people seen spade species
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.
canadian-musician music
There was a lot more music than the size of the place would indicate.
learning
If you don't keep learning and growing, you're going to stagnate.
shows
'Gifts' was just a short little one-verse song that I used to close shows in the '60s.
experience home powerful short wrote
'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.
canadian-musician
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.
canadian-musician trouble
The trouble with normal is it always gets worse.
phobia
It's a phobia I have. I never assume I'm going to be able to write another album after I finish one.
good looking sane situations war
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.