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
light shadow follow-me
I wear my shadows where they're harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that should tell me I'm traveling toward light.
justice politics want
Everybody wants to see justice done, to somebody else.
beautiful rocks sky
Beautiful rocks - beautiful grass Beautiful soil where they both combine Beautiful river - covering sky Never thought of possession, but all this was mine.
thinking years understanding
All these years of thinking, ending up like this: In front of all this beauty, understanding nothing.
writing half kind
The second half of the '60s really was a kind of learning period, in terms of writing, for me.
dark maps sometimes
Sometimes the best map will not guide you, you can't see what's round the bend. Sometimes the road leads through dark places, sometimes the darkness is your friend
writing two together
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.
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.
war thinking ideas
A sane person doesn't think war is a good idea.
way imagine i-can
I can't imagine my life any other way than it's been.
religious religion way
Love the Lord and in him love me too. And in him, go your own way and I'll be right here with you.
sex flags politics
Wave the flag, wave the Bible, wave your sex or your business degree, whatever you want, just don't wave that thing at me.
learning
If you don't keep learning and growing, you're going to stagnate.