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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.

Bruce Cockburn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: canadian
Birth: May 27, 1945

Topics

Time People Rock And Roll Thought

Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Finance Wealth Never Without Been

If you're extremely, painfully frightened of age, it shows.

Jeanne Moreau

Age You Shows Frightened Painfully

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

John Updike

Sea Poetry Writing Criticism Open

When I was 15 or 16 playing in groups, we used to sit in the car and try to write the lyrics down as a song was playing, and we'd assign each person a verse, you know: 'I'm going to do the first one. You go for the second one.' And then sometimes you'd wait an hour for it to come on again so you could finish it up.

Tom Petty

Car Wait Song You Down Person

Theology is in disrepute among most Western intellectuals. The word is taken to mean a passe form of religious thinking that embraces irrationality and dogmatism. So too, Scholasticism.

Rodney Stark

Thinking Mean Word Theology Most

I know what she used to do sometimes. She kept her best cape she wore on the street in there, and she used occasionally to go up there to get it and to take it into her room. She kept a great deal in the guest room drawers.

Lizzie Andrew Borden

Great Best Go Know Sometimes Street

What makes Broken Lizard, I think, is our timing.

Jay Chandrasekhar

Broken Think Timing Lizard I Think

Effective storytelling is the key to getting users to understand and adopt your product as well as imperative to recruiting team members and future investors.

Chris Sacca

Future Team Key Product Understand

I'm sensitive to the things I see.

Chris Van Allsburg

See I See Things Sensitive

I still consider myself a feminist.

Suzanne Vega

Myself Still Feminist Consider

I am a great believer in people taking control of their own lives.

Peter Mayle

Great I Am People Control Own Am

While you're improvising, you may come up with something which will break him up. As soon as that smile comes out, you know that, hey, we're having fun.

Shelley Berman

Smile Fun Having Fun You Know Will