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
song opportunity thinking
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.
war thinking ideas
A sane person doesn't think war is a good idea.
thinking years understanding
All these years of thinking, ending up like this: In front of all this beauty, understanding nothing.
thinking world another-day
Sun's up, uh huh, looks okay - the world survives into another day, and I'm thinking about eternity. Some kind of ecstasy got a hold on me.
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.
writing half kind
The second half of the '60s really was a kind of learning period, in terms of writing, for me.