Bruce Cockburn Quotes
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Music is another great pleasure of life. I like all sorts.
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You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change.
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I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being exactly that.
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You aren't your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your home, your family... your anything. You're a creation of your Source, dressed in a physical human body intended to experience and enjoy life on Earth.
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I have a really beautiful life right now, so there is no reason to be hostile. I'm a husband, a father and a man who tries to do the right thing in life and in my work.
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I'm not afraid of death. What's to fear? Once you're dead, that's it. Nothing. I don't believe in heaven or hell. That's baloney. What matters is the here and now. Yes, I'm 88, and there are things I can't do: I can't run a race or climb Everest. But isn't life magnificent?
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Generally, I like making my own mistakes and learning from them because that's what I think life is about.
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The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.
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To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
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I miss riding those fast trains in Japan... 'cause I'd never seen a train that fast in my life.
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Spiritual life can certainly follow the pattern one sees in the fake martial arts, with most teachers making nebulous and magical claims that never get tested, while their students derange themselves with weird ideas, empty rituals, and other affectations.
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After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.
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You're trying to put yourself in that moment and trying to prepare yourself, to have a 'memory before the game. I don't know if you'd call it visualising or dreaming, but I've always done it, my whole life.
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For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.
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I love karaoke. I love maudlin country ballads. In another life, I'd be Loretta Lynn.
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Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
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It only took one text message to change my life. That's when I discovered my loving husband had been unfaithful. His infidelities ended our marriage.
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In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.
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The major tragedies in life, there's just no compensation. But the minor ones you can always write about. It's my way of dealing, and it's a heck of a lot cheaper than psychiatrists. The story, you see, will get you through.
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Growth is the only evidence of life.
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I like to be right. I try not to miss the big ideas, forget the little ones, and try to get them right. End of job description.
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Mozart was born Mozart. Charlie Parker was born Charlie Parker.
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If you truly loved yourself, you could never hurt another.
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I can't imagine my life any other way than it's been.
