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
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.
fun pain war
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.
war world found
Since the early '80s, I've found myself in war zones in various parts of the world.
decision different world
There are some decision-makers in the world whose version of sanity is a little different from what I consider the right one.
friendship dog moving
I watch the confusion of friends all numb with love moving like stray dogs to the anthem of night long conversations of pulsing rhythms and random voltage voices in spite of themselves graceful as these raindrops creeping spermlike across the car window.
animal lions wonder
And I'm wondering where the lions are.
philosophy sight dragons
In between effect and cause and just beyond the range of normal sight, this glittering joker was dancing in the dragon's jaws.
eye tragedy wake-up
Lord, spit on our eyes that we may see, how to wake up from this tragedy.
peaceful female needs
Male female slave or free; peaceful or disorderly; maybe you and he will not agree; but you need him to show you new ways to see.
blessed looks littles
Little round planet in a big universe, sometimes it looks blessed, sometimes it looks cursed. Depends what you look at obviously, but even more it depends on the way that you see.
artist wonderful charitable
The invitation for artists to compete to see who can be the most charitable is a wonderful thing.
ideas remember remember-when
I remember when the idea of living to be 40 seemed absurd.
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.
darkness daylight kicks
Gotta kick at the darkness til it bleeds daylight.