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Bruce Cockburn

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All these years of thinking, ending up like this: In front of all this beauty, understanding nothing.


— Bruce Cockburn


#beauty

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.


— Bruce Cockburn


#ever #i #nobody #other #people

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.


— Bruce Cockburn


#follow #guess #harder #i #light

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.


— Bruce Cockburn


#around #composing #hadn #i #loved

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.


— Bruce Cockburn


#bum #doing #ever #get #going

The trouble with normal is it always gets worse.


— Bruce Cockburn


#gets #normal #trouble #worse

There was a lot more music than the size of the place would indicate.


— Bruce Cockburn


#lot #more #music #place #size

The second half of the '60s really was a kind of learning period, in terms of writing, for me.


— Bruce Cockburn


#kind #learning #me #period #really






About Bruce Cockburn

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Did you know about Bruce Cockburn?

Many of his albums from the 1970s refer to his Christian belief which in turn informs the concerns for human rights and environmentalism expressed on his 1980s albums. That summer Cockburn broke up the band with the intention of going solo but he ended up in the band 3's a Crowd with David Wiffen Colleen Peterson and Richard Patterson who had played with him in The Children. Cockburn left this band in the spring of 1969 to pursue a solo career.

Bruce Douglas Cockburn OC (pron. He has written songs in styles ranging from folk to jazz-influenced rock to rock and roll.

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