Bruce Cockburn

All these years of thinking, ending up like this: In front of all this beauty, understanding nothing. ↗

— Bruce Cockburn

#beauty

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

#ever #i #nobody #other #people

I wear my shadows where they're harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that should tell me I'm travelling toward light. ↗

— Bruce Cockburn

#follow #guess #harder #i #light

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

#around #composing #hadn #i #loved

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 be a bum doing it.' And so, here I am. ↗

— Bruce Cockburn

#bum #doing #ever #get #going

The trouble with normal is it always gets worse. ↗

— Bruce Cockburn

#gets #normal #trouble #worse

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

— Bruce Cockburn

#lot #more #music #place #size

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

— Bruce Cockburn

#kind #learning #me #period #really