Bruce Cockburn Quotes
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.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I'm giving you myself in the music. There's where the connection comes from; you can't Twitter that.
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I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.
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I'm very open-minded.
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The 77 cents that women make for every dollar men earn makes a real difference to our families - families stretching to make every dollar count.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
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Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. I never get over being thankful for that - for the courage of my readers.
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It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.
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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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I do comedy to give people an ephemeral escape from the tragedy that permeates everyday life.
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There is plenty of building material and more than enough manpower to make a decent home for every Cuban. But if we continue to wait for the golden calf, a thousand years will have gone by, and the problem will remain the same.
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Mike Schur knows exactly what everything should look like but, at the same time, is super collaborative and loves working with actors that make choices and bring stuff to the table.
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I am ashamed to run against a lady. It's demeaning, very degrading. I have always refused to argue with a lady.
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Acting has always existed alongside my normal life. It's been a case of learning on the job. I've worked in so many styles, with so many people, so I've picked bits up from everyone and everything.
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I saw Damien Rice in Dublin when I was 13, and that inspired me to want to pursue being a songwriter... I practised relentlessly and started recording my own EPs. At 16, I moved to London and played any gigs I could, selling CDs from my rucksack to fund recording the next, and it snowballed from there.
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There's no separation between electronic music and acoustic music. It's all one thing. Each song has its own heartbeat. Each song has its own soul.
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You're as good as the people you're with.
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You can't stop technology or science, and it is snowballing quicker than ever. Something's got to come to a head. How? Who knows? But it will.
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Laa shay'a waqi'un moutlaq bale kouloun moumkine...We work in the Dark, to serve the Light.
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That's another thing about Noise. Everything that's ever happened to you just keeps right on talking, for ever and ever.
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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.
