Bruce Cockburn Quotes About Songs

Quotes about: Songs

• 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.

  Bruce Cockburn

  Song, Opportunity, Thinking

• 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.

  Bruce Cockburn

  Girl, Song, Morning

  "Bruce Cockburn: A Veteran Traveler Finds 'Comfort'". Interview with Liane Hansen, www.npr.org. March 12, 2011.

• I'm particularly attuned to lyrics, and very often a bad set of lyrics will ruin a song for me, while my friends will be just grooving on the music. I don't mean that it has to be about anything in particular, but there has to be some art applied to it, simple or otherwise.

  Bruce Cockburn

  Song, Art, Mean

  Source: progressive.org

• I did a lot of writing for a lot of different kinds of bands that I was in and out of during those five years and that left me with a little body of songs that I liked better when I played alone, so I ended up going out solo and very soon made my first album.

  Bruce Cockburn

  Song, Writing, Years

• 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

  Song, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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