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
defined drop expect mind plans until
I think if I really put my mind to it I probably did think I would be, but under what conditions, ... I expect to be doing this until I drop or become incapacitated. I don't make any more defined plans than that.
album choices choose close desire fits less might mood particular pieces played records time varied whatever widely
We had close to 30 pieces to choose from and it was more a desire to make an album that made a cohesive whole, ... Most of the time when we put on records it's because we want that mood whatever it is. So, if you have an album that is widely varied in mood it might get played less than one that fits somebody's particular mood... at least that's how my choices usually work.
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.
fighting situation pacifist
I'm not a pacifist. I feel that there are situations where fighting is inescapable, but we don't go looking for those things.
girl song morning
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.
ideas remember remember-when
I remember when the idea of living to be 40 seemed absurd.