Bruce Cockburn Quotes
But nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight / Got to kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight.
When you know even for a moment That it's your time Then you can walk with the power Of a thousand generations
One day you're waiting for the sky to fall, The next you're dazzled by the beauty of it all.
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
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.
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.
Beautiful rocks - beautiful grass Beautiful soil where they both combine Beautiful river - covering sky Never thought of possession, but all this was mine.
Resisting the powers that be, we are keeping things from getting worse than they otherwise might be. And that effort is very much worthwhile.
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.
Water of life is gonna flow again/changed from the blood of heroes and knaves/Word mercy's gonna have a new meaning/ when we are judged by the children of our slaves.
I'm not a pacifist. I feel that there are situations where fighting is inescapable, but we don't go looking for those things.
The trouble with normal is it always gets worse, fashionable fascism dominates the scene.
Almost all the military personnel were wearing sunglasses. No Iraqis wear sunglasses. They really want to see your eyes. So immediately they can't trust the Americans.
The invitation for artists to compete to see who can be the most charitable is a wonderful thing.
Like a stone on the surface of a still river Driving the ripples on forever Redemption rips through the surface of time In the cry of a tiny babe.
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.
The second half of the '60s really was a kind of learning period, in terms of writing, for me.
I woke up one morning with this song in my head, and the opening line of the song: My name was Richard Nixon, only now I'm a girl.
There are some decision-makers in the world whose version of sanity is a little different from what I consider the right one.
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.
In between effect and cause and just beyond the range of normal sight, this glittering joker was dancing in the dragon's jaws.
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.
Love the Lord and in him love me too. And in him, go your own way and I'll be right here with you.
There are so many people I love in the United States, and I've had such great adventures in this country and have been so well received by people here.
We all grow up with anger. It's part of the human condition. But what do you do with that? It seems obvious to me that you've got to use it for something, but you have to separate it from your ego.
My overall responsibility is to be truthful. If people pay money to come and see me, looking for something other than that, then they've made a mistake.
All these years of thinking, ending up like this: In front of all this beauty, understanding nothing.