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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

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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