Bruce Cockburn Quotes - Page 3

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• 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.

  Bruce Cockburn

  Fun, Pain, War

  "Gavin's Woodpile". www.brucecockburn.org. December 15, 2012.

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• 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.

  Bruce Cockburn

  Light, Shadow, Follow Me

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• Love the Lord and in him love me too. And in him, go your own way and I'll be right here with you.

  Bruce Cockburn

  Religious, Religion, Way

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• In between effect and cause and just beyond the range of normal sight, this glittering joker was dancing in the dragon's jaws.

  Bruce Cockburn

  Philosophy, Sight, Dragons

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• The second half of the '60s really was a kind of learning period, in terms of writing, for me.

  Bruce Cockburn

  Writing, Half, Kind

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• 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.

  Bruce Cockburn

  Writing, Two, Together

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• 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.

  Bruce Cockburn

  Rip, Rivers, Forever

  Song: Cry Of A Tiny Babe, Album: Nothing But a Burning Light

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• 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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• The invitation for artists to compete to see who can be the most charitable is a wonderful thing.

  Bruce Cockburn

  Artist, Wonderful, Charitable

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• 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

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• I'm not a pacifist. I feel that there are situations where fighting is inescapable, but we don't go looking for those things.

  Bruce Cockburn

  Fighting, Situation, Pacifist

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There are some decision-makers in the world whose version of sanity is a little different from what I consider the right one.

  Bruce Cockburn

  Decision, Different, World

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Since the early '80s, I've found myself in war zones in various parts of the world.

  Bruce Cockburn

  War, World, Found

  "Gavin's Woodpile". www.brucecockburn.org. December 15, 2012.

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