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Anger is energy, and you've got to find a place to put it that works for you.

Bruce Cockburn

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Bruce Cockburn
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: May 27
Composer
Guitarist
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Singer-Songwriter
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Ottawa (Ontario)
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Going to places like Honduras, Nicaragua, and various African countries you get to see very clearly what the cause and effect is. We finance the obnoxious elites in those countries and they exploit their people so we don't have to say that we're doing the exploiting but nevertheless we are benefiting from it.
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We all grow up with anger. It's part of the human condition. But what do you do with that? It seems obvious to me that you've got to use it for something, but you have to separate it from your ego.
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I remember when the idea of living to be 40 seemed absurd.
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And I'm wondering where the lions are.
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In between effect and cause and just beyond the range of normal sight, this glittering joker was dancing in the dragon's jaws.
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Abu Ghraib, as bad as it was, can't be compared to what Saddam was doing to people.
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Some people never see the light Till it shines thru bullet holes.
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I'm not a pacifist. I feel that there are situations where fighting is inescapable, but we don't go looking for those things.
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There is no gap between art and politics.
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I like to think that if it hadn't gone as well as it has, if I wasn't able to make a living off of playing music, I would still be playing the music. But, of course, I wouldn't likely have had the opportunity to travel, and a lot of the places have inspired songs.
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Once you tie anger and ego together then you're a monster, at least a latent one. So you have to be able to separate those things before you are going to be able to do anything useful with your anger.
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The second half of the '60s really was a kind of learning period, in terms of writing, for me.
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I woke up one morning with this song in my head, and the opening line of the song: My name was Richard Nixon, only now I'm a girl.
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The trouble with normal is it only gets worse.
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Sometimes the best map will not guide you, you can't see what's round the bend. Sometimes the road leads through dark places, sometimes the darkness is your friend
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The invitation for artists to compete to see who can be the most charitable is a wonderful thing.
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Most of the time, our deeper, stronger feelings are things we all have in common.
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A sane person doesn't think war is a good idea.
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Little round planet in a big universe, sometimes it looks blessed, sometimes it looks cursed. Depends what you look at obviously, but even more it depends on the way that you see.
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I always write the lyrics first. There are one or two exceptions over the years, but that's pretty much the way it's been. The process of applying music to words is a bit like scoring a film. You've got imagery.
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