Bruce Cockburn quote: "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."

I wear my shadows where they're harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that shoul...
BRUCE COCKBURN

I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought...
BRUCE COCKBURN

I wanted to play rock and roll when I started playing. Nobody at that time ever thought about songwr...
BRUCE COCKBURN

I did a lot of writing for a lot of different kinds of bands that I was in and out of during those f...
BRUCE COCKBURN

All I ever thought was, 'I'm going to do this as long as I can, and if I can't get paid at it, I'll ...
BRUCE COCKBURN

Though chains be of gold, they are chains all the same
BRUCE COCKBURN

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

I think if I really put my mind to it I probably did think I would be, but under what conditions, .....
BRUCE COCKBURN

We had close to 30 pieces to choose from and it was more a desire to make an album that made a cohes...
BRUCE COCKBURN

I wear my shadows where they're harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that should te...
BRUCE COCKBURN

There are some decision-makers in the world whose version of sanity is a little different from what ...
BRUCE COCKBURN

The trouble with normal is it always gets worse.
BRUCE COCKBURN

I'm not a pacifist. I feel that there are situations where fighting is inescapable, but we don&#...
BRUCE COCKBURN

A sane person doesn't think war is a good idea. I'm not a pacifist. I feel that there are si...
BRUCE COCKBURN

It sounds strange to say it, but you can be in a war zone and have a lot of fun. Even though war is ...
BRUCE COCKBURN

It's a phobia I have. I never assume I'm going to be able to write another album after I fin...
BRUCE COCKBURN

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

We're confronted with great darkness as a species right now as spiritual creatures on this plane...
BRUCE COCKBURN

'Gifts' was just a short little one-verse song that I used to close shows in the '60s.
BRUCE COCKBURN

A sane person doesn't think war is a good idea.
BRUCE COCKBURN

I remember when the idea of living to be 40 seemed absurd.
BRUCE COCKBURN

I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn&#...
BRUCE COCKBURN

All I ever thought was, 'I'm going to do this as long as I can, and if I can't get paid ...
BRUCE COCKBURN

'Each One Lost' I wrote the day after I got home. My week in Afghanistan was a very short tr...
BRUCE COCKBURN

I woke up one morning with this song in my head, and the opening line of the song is, 'My name w...
BRUCE COCKBURN

I can't imagine my life any other way than it's been.
BRUCE COCKBURN

There was a lot more music than the size of the place would indicate.
BRUCE COCKBURN

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

I wanted to play rock and roll when I started playing. Nobody at that time ever thought about songwr...
BRUCE COCKBURN

If I try to understand what it means to be a Christian, I look at the two instructions that were giv...
BRUCE COCKBURN

If you don't keep learning and growing, you're going to stagnate.
BRUCE COCKBURN

One day you're waiting for the sky to fall
The next you're dazzled by the beauty of it all
BRUCE COCKBURN

Never underestimate the effectiveness of a straight cash bribe.
CLAUD COCKBURN

Be careful about Burma. Most people cannot remember whether it was Siam and has become Thailand, or ...
ALEXANDER COCKBURN

England in the late 1940s was famously grim. As I remember it, London back then was a very dirty pla...
ALEXANDER COCKBURN

Why did they ban that?
ALEXANDER COCKBURN

The pack slumbered and only a few watchdogs rattled their chains.
ALEXANDER COCKBURN

They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies tha...
ALEXANDER COCKBURN

The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it
ALEXANDER COCKBURN

A ''just war'' is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than ...
ALEXANDER COCKBURN

The weapon of the advocate is the sword of the soldier, not the dagger of the assassin
ALEXANDER COCKBURN

A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.
ALEXANDER COCKBURN

There is never finality in the display terminal's screen, but an irresponsible whimsicality, as word...
ALEXANDER COCKBURN

What arouses the indignation of the honest satirist is not, unless the man is a prig, the fact that ...
CLAUD COCKBURN

Evidently there are plenty of people in journalism who have neither got what they liked nor quite gr...
CLAUD COCKBURN

Nothing sets a person up more than having something turn out just the way it's supposed to be, like ...
CLAUD COCKBURN

They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies tha...
ALEXANDER COCKBURN

When you are on assignment, you stick to the facts, limit your vision, and often cut out the most re...
LESLIE COCKBURN

The weapon of the advocate is the sword of the soldier, not the dagger of the assassin.
ALEXANDER COCKBURN

By 1967, J. Edgar Hoover had concluded that the Black Panther Party had replaced the Communist Party...
ALEXANDER COCKBURN

A wartime Minister of Information is compelled, in the national interest, to such continuous acts of...
CLAUD COCKBURN

The travel writer seeks the world we have lost --the lost valleys of the imagination.
ALEXANDER COCKBURN

Never believe anything until it has been officially denied.
CLAUD COCKBURN

Next week Reagan will probably announce that American scientists have discovered that the entire U.S...
ALEXANDER COCKBURN

A just war is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the ...
ALEXANDER COCKBURN

The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.
ALEXANDER COCKBURN

After reading Graham Greene and Joseph Conrad when I was a student at Yale, I wanted to live in the ...
LESLIE COCKBURN

When you have a situation that's destructive, when there's tremendous inhumanity everywhere,...
LESLIE COCKBURN

I started making little films with a 16 mm camera as an undergraduate at Yale. My first job out of c...
LESLIE COCKBURN

The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it
ALEXANDER COCKBURN

Republicans know well that a change of rhetorical pace is necessary. But efforts by their leaders to...
ALEXANDER COCKBURN

Never believe anything until it has been officially denied
CLAUD COCKBURN

Never underestimate the effectiveness of a straight cash bribe
CLAUD COCKBURN

And we whom custom bars this active Valour, Branding it with Reproach, shrink at th' Alarm Of War, b...
CATHERINE COCKBURN

Journalism, for me, has always been a calling. There are things that must be exposed to the light, t...
LESLIE COCKBURN

When I was in London at NBC, I was the lowest man on the totem pole. I would go to diplomatic recept...
LESLIE COCKBURN

Pose a political threat to Business As Usual, and sooner or later, mostly sooner, someone will try t...
ALEXANDER COCKBURN

Wear the badge of environmental radicalism, and you're a citizen automatically under suspicion.
ALEXANDER COCKBURN

The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.
ALEXANDER COCKBURN

Believe nothing until it has been officially denied.
CLAUD COCKBURN

There is something about the melody of 'Thunder Road' that just suggests 'new day.' ...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

There's a bright spot in every dark cloud.
BRUCE BERESFORD

Sarah Palin may have chosen to not answer the call for the presidency, but make no mistake, the prin...
TAMMY BRUCE

Believing a person deserves a defence is not the same as doing anything in your power to get him off...
TAMMY BRUCE

For the gay establishment, the death of right and wrong began when gaining civil rights ceased to be...
TAMMY BRUCE

Horrible things happen when you run out of other people's money, and life and work becomes a bur...
TAMMY BRUCE

Republicans have never been good at public relations.
TAMMY BRUCE

The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then ...
TAMMY BRUCE

From the subtle to the extreme, our culture and our values are under unrelenting attack from the med...
TAMMY BRUCE

One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with...
TAMMY BRUCE

Gone are the days when reality fed the feminist movement.
TAMMY BRUCE

For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband.
TAMMY BRUCE

The United States has grown into a remarkable nation specifically because of our independent spirit ...
TAMMY BRUCE

One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete.
TAMMY BRUCE

Yes, we have the freedom to do what we please, but it only works because we don't do everything ...
TAMMY BRUCE

As you might have gathered, I prefer the honest, decent and genuinely accepting friends and family I...
TAMMY BRUCE

The Left Elite only pretend to be concerned about what's best for everyone else because it is th...
TAMMY BRUCE

The Tea Party represents stakeholders in the American system; people who were never involved in poli...
TAMMY BRUCE

Remember, social progress only happens when those in society's privileged classes choose to give...
TAMMY BRUCE

When the courts decide that murderers, rapists, and others who maliciously break our social contract...
TAMMY BRUCE

Unfortunately, what many people forget is that judges are just lawyers in robes.
TAMMY BRUCE

Trials are no longer about freeing the innocent, punishing the guilty, and making restitution to the...
TAMMY BRUCE

My friendships and relationships in the conservative world are not predicated on political correctne...
TAMMY BRUCE

The liberal feminist movement never imagined that women would take seriously the encouragement to be...
TAMMY BRUCE

A good actor is somebody who can be truthful and fascinating and interesting and enlightening.
BRUCE DAVISON

I've always been interested in any kind of great music, and African music is, I think, the sourc...
JACK BRUCE

What I'm trying to do, in my own small way, is trying to bring African and Afro-Cuban rhythms in...
JACK BRUCE

I had a lot of vocal problems when I was younger. I don't know if it's down to leading a hea...
JACK BRUCE

Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
JACK BRUCE

At the age of 16 I started performing with a dance band in the evenings and began earning more money...
JACK BRUCE

Well I like everything but my first love has always been piano because when I started out there was ...
JACK BRUCE

Well all the big companies are really panicked by the internet thing and all that, and sales went do...
JACK BRUCE

I know he played on the last record but I don't wake up in the middle of the night thinking of E...
JACK BRUCE

We all have roles in life. I'm a dad, a husband, this and that, but basically I only feel justif...
JACK BRUCE

I think I'm an okay parent, but I'd put myself in the category of a musician-who-happened-to...
JACK BRUCE

I've always had money because of my early success with Cream, so I tell young musicians to aim t...
JACK BRUCE

Thankfully I'm not endlessly ambitious, but I have done some crazy ambitious things like buying ...
JACK BRUCE

I was 16 when I got a scholarship to study classical composition at a conservatory. By that time I h...
JACK BRUCE

Growing up in inner-city Glasgow, it sometimes seemed to me money hadn't been invented.
JACK BRUCE

Since I got my new liver, some of my tastes have changed. There are certain things I don't like ...
JACK BRUCE

Between now and then and I just felt it was ready and it was a long enough period gone by. I obvious...
JACK BRUCE

There are two types of encryption: one that will prevent your sister from reading your diary and one...
BRUCE SCHNEIER

I suppose when you do it correctly, a good introduction and a good outro makes the song feel like it...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

The only thing that is obscene is censorship.
CRAIG BRUCE

You can go from doing something quite silly to something dead serious in the blink of an eye, and if...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

I'm not a comedian. And I'm not sick. The world is sick, and I'm the doctor. I'm a s...
LENNY BRUCE

When you have something for breakfast, you're not going to be starving by lunch.
BRUCE BARTON

I read that all dogs have wolf DNA in them, which seemed preposterous because my dog, Tucker, is... ...
BRUCE CAMERON

I was riding my mountain bike in Colorado, and I met a dog who reminded me so much of my very first ...
BRUCE CAMERON

My dog's name is Tucker, and his DNA is unidentifiable and suspect.
BRUCE CAMERON

My main characters are the most sunny, happy, optimistic, loving creatures on the face of the Earth....
BRUCE CAMERON

I am stunned by how much time and effort I must spend marketing my book and interacting with my read...
BRUCE CAMERON

We have enforced a Darwinian process on wolves, turning them into the shy and elusive animals they&#...
BRUCE CAMERON

If I'm right, the only reason our species is still around is because of our friendship with the ...
BRUCE CAMERON

With my book 'How to Remodel a Man,' I was on Oprah, Fox News, the Early Show, and Good Morn...
BRUCE CAMERON

The loneliest, most down-on-his-luck person can have a dog who adores him. The most bitter, sour per...
BRUCE CAMERON

A lot of people think I am the one to turn to for dog behavior issues. I'm not. All you have to ...
BRUCE CAMERON

For many young people, the minimum wage is a stepping stone to higher employment levels.
BRUCE RAUNER

The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths.
BRUCE NAUMAN

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation...
BRUCE BARTON

I had a ten-piece band when I was 21 years old, the Bruce Springsteen Band. This is just a slightly ...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

I do have two data identities. I have my name, Bruce Sterling, which is my public name under which I...
BRUCE STERLING

I don't have an act. I just talk. I'm just Lenny Bruce.
LENNY BRUCE

This win shows progress. We don't want to get ahead of ourselves, though. A lot of people picked us ...
AARON BRUCE

We haven't really talked about going to the tournament. We just want to keep playing. ... There is a...
AARON BRUCE

I wasn't very impressed with myself in the first half. I was fortunate enough (in the second half) m...
AARON BRUCE

We did a good job well from 3s. They did a good job of blocking us out and forcing us into plays we ...
AARON BRUCE

This win shows progress. We don't want to get ahead of ourselves, though.
AARON BRUCE

He's a force inside. You love to play with players who are that dominant.
AARON BRUCE

I think we've made a gradual progression. We've had a lot to learn and there's only so long you can ...
AARON BRUCE

I credit their defense, but I should make those shots. Good players make those shots. I'm very disap...
AARON BRUCE

We've been talking about it for so long, it's great to actually be in that situation. We spent month...
AARON BRUCE

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry
BRUCE WILLIS

Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that yo...
BRUCE WILLIS

Walk in the rain, jump in mud puddles, collect rocks, rainbows and roses, smell flowers, blow bubble...
BRUCE WILLIAMSON

Tender Mercies is a very low-budget film, but it was a huge budget compared to anything I had done i...
BRUCE BERESFORD

It's sad when you see most of your friends in the business gone, like Tommy Cooper, Frankie Howa...
BRUCE FORSYTH

I caught hold of the great bull market in soybeans in 1977. I had no idea what I was doing, incident...
BRUCE KOVNER

People were talking while I was playing, so I got up and left the stage. I've gotten to the poin...
BRUCE HORNSBY

A security cam is one small part of a much larger universe of cams. The much larger effect, socially...
BRUCE STERLING

I'm a pretty disciplined investor and pretty disciplined buyer. I do my due diligence. I do my h...
BRUCE RAUNER

I have represented farmers in federal court during the Iowa farm crisis. A farmer from Butler County...
BRUCE BRALEY

Yeah, we're sweet but savage, and I think a lot of Canadians are that way.
BRUCE MCCULLOCH

When I was starting to get noticed as an actor in the 1970s for something other than the third cowbo...
BRUCE DERN

When I was growing up, there were two things that were unpopular in my house. One was me, and the ot...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

I looked at myself, and I just said, 'Well, you know, I can sing, but I'm not the greatest s...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

A good song takes on more meaning as the years pass by.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

The release date is just one day, but the record is forever.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

The past is never the past. It is always present. And you better reckon with it in your life and in ...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

When it comes to luck, you make your own.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provi...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

A good song gathers the years in. It's why you can sing it with such conviction 40 years after i...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

Somebody who can reckon with the past, who can live with the past in the present, and move towards t...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally - with your family, your ...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

You can't be afraid of getting old. Old is good, if you're gathering in life. Our band is go...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

Talk about a dream, try to make it real.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

It's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin and can't stand the company.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

You're always in a box, and you're an escape artist if you do what I do - or if you're a...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in bed with ...
LENNY BRUCE

If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
LENNY BRUCE

A lot of people say to me, "Why did you kill Christ?" "I dunno... it was one of those parties, got o...
LENNY BRUCE

If they're booking a PWR BTTM show, they know what they're in for.
LIV BRUCE

The Bollywood distribution system is so corrupt that they have trouble making money off movies. So t...
BRUCE STERLING

If the brain expects that a treatment will work, it sends healing chemicals into the bloodstream, wh...
BRUCE LIPTON

Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you ...
BRUCE LEE

Engineering stimulates the mind. Kids get bored easily. They have got to get out and get their hands...
BRUCE DICKINSON

I'm certainly thankful for what the Cubs did for me. I respect their organization. It's the ...
BRUCE SUTTER

People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it m...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

The US military still blames the media for stories and images that turned the American public agains...
BRUCE JACKSON

In America everything's about who's number one today.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity. The classical man is just a...
BRUCE LEE

Let the spirit out - Discard all thoughts of reward, all hopes of praise and fears of blame, all awa...
BRUCE LEE

There will be calmness, tranquility, when one is free from external objects and is not perturbed.
BRUCE LEE

Absorb what is useful, Discard what is not, Add what is uniquely your own.
BRUCE LEE

Transform it, decorate it, let it become a new Bruce Lee museum,
BRUCE LEE

The recovery plan does foresee a return to profitability and some upsides for the employees through ...
BRUCE HICKS

The fear I had was Rita would be the knockout punch to a city that still had its heart and soul.
BRUCE HICKS

They're not at that stage yet. ... The time will come.
BRUCE HICKS

If we don't have ratification by all three unions at that time, we are left with no choice but to fi...
BRUCE HICKS

No union has indicated to the company that they have any intention other than to sign the agreement....
BRUCE HICKS

A pilots' strike would be fatal to Delta Air Lines.
BRUCE HICKS

It would be devastating. Delta would not operate. We would not fly and there are no contingency plan...
BRUCE HICKS

Today's outcome will not disrupt Delta service. Together with our pilots and all of our employees, w...
BRUCE HICKS

Last month we came precipitously close to filing for bankruptcy. We were fully prepared to file bank...
BRUCE HICKS

The question is whether American restructures its costs outside of bankruptcy court or through the c...
BRUCE HICKS

I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to...
BRUCE LEE

I believe the war on poverty is a more American idea than the war on the war on poverty. I believe t...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

The real heroes are the librarians and teachers who at no small risk to themselves refuse to lie dow...
BRUCE COVILLE

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.

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Bruce Cockburn

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

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