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Top 30 Bruce Cockburn Quotes (2025 Update)

Bruce Cockburn Quote: “Gotta kick at the darkness til it bleeds daylight.”

1. “Gotta kick at the darkness til it bleeds daylight.”

— Bruce Cockburn

Bruce Cockburn Quote: “One day you’re waiting for the sky to fall, The next you’re dazzled by the beauty of it all.”

2. “One day you’re waiting for the sky to fall, The next you’re dazzled by the beauty of it all.”

— Bruce Cockburn

Bruce Cockburn Quote: “And I’m wondering where the lions are.”

3. “And I’m wondering where the lions are.”

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Bruce Cockburn Quote: “Lord, spit on our eyes that we may see, how to wake up from this tragedy.”

4. “Lord, spit on our eyes that we may see, how to wake up from this tragedy.”

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Bruce Cockburn Quote: “We are on a great journey, through darkness and dawn, across time, though sometimes I fear that our journey is about to end. We must not succumb to fear or avarice; we must continue to embrace life, seek light, and gather in the charity of night. This is what God wants from us and for us. Mirrors of the past shine with the hue of unborn days, just as stars glitter in the dark night to light our way.”

5. “We are on a great journey, through darkness and dawn, across time, though sometimes I fear that our journey is about to end. We must not succumb to fear or avarice; we must continue to embrace life, seek light, and gather in the charity of night. This is what God wants from us and for us. Mirrors of the past shine with the hue of unborn days, just as stars glitter in the dark night to light our way.”

— Bruce Cockburn

Bruce Cockburn Quote: “The trouble with normal is it only gets worse.”

6. “The trouble with normal is it only gets worse.”

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Bruce Cockburn Quote: “Though chains be of gold, they are chains all the same.”

7. “Though chains be of gold, they are chains all the same.”

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Bruce Cockburn Quote: “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.”

8. “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.”

— Bruce Cockburn

Bruce Cockburn Quote: “Some people never see the light Till it shines thru bullet holes.”

9. “Some people never see the light Till it shines thru bullet holes.”

— Bruce Cockburn

Bruce Cockburn Quote: “In between effect and cause and just beyond the range of normal sight, this glittering joker was dancing in the dragon’s jaws.”

10. “In between effect and cause and just beyond the range of normal sight, this glittering joker was dancing in the dragon’s jaws.”

— Bruce Cockburn

Bruce Cockburn Quote: “All these years of thinking, ending up like this: In front of all this beauty, understanding nothing.”

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

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Bruce Cockburn Quote: “Everybody wants to see justice done, to somebody else.”

12. “Everybody wants to see justice done, to somebody else.”

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Bruce Cockburn Quote: “I wear my shadows where they’re harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that should tell me I’m traveling toward light.”

13. “I wear my shadows where they’re harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that should tell me I’m traveling toward light.”

— Bruce Cockburn

Bruce Cockburn Quote: “If I try to understand what it means to be a Christian, I look at the two instructions that were given in the Bible that are paramount, and those are to love God with all your heart and mind, and to love your neighbor as yourself. That’s it.”

14. “If I try to understand what it means to be a Christian, I look at the two instructions that were given in the Bible that are paramount, and those are to love God with all your heart and mind, and to love your neighbor as yourself. That’s it.”

— Bruce Cockburn

Bruce Cockburn Quote: “I can’t imagine my life any other way than it’s been.”

15. “I can’t imagine my life any other way than it’s been.”

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Bruce Cockburn Quote: “Male female slave or free; peaceful or disorderly; maybe you and he will not agree; but you need him to show you new ways to see.”

16. “Male female slave or free; peaceful or disorderly; maybe you and he will not agree; but you need him to show you new ways to see.”

— Bruce Cockburn

Bruce Cockburn Quote: “I’m not a pacifist. I feel that there are situations where fighting is inescapable, but we don’t go looking for those things.”

17. “I’m not a pacifist. I feel that there are situations where fighting is inescapable, but we don’t go looking for those things.”

— Bruce Cockburn

Bruce Cockburn Quote: “Love the Lord and in him love me too. And in him, go your own way and I’ll be right here with you.”

18. “Love the Lord and in him love me too. And in him, go your own way and I’ll be right here with you.”

— Bruce Cockburn

Bruce Cockburn Quote: “My models for graceful aging are guys like John Lee Hooker and Mississippi John Hurt, who never stopped working till they dropped, as I fully expect to be doing, and just getting better as musicians and as human beings.”

19. “My models for graceful aging are guys like John Lee Hooker and Mississippi John Hurt, who never stopped working till they dropped, as I fully expect to be doing, and just getting better as musicians and as human beings.”

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Bruce Cockburn Quote: “I watch the confusion of friends all numb with love moving like stray dogs to the anthem of night long conversations of pulsing rhythms and random voltage voices in spite of themselves graceful as these raindrops creeping spermlike across the car window.”

20. “I watch the confusion of friends all numb with love moving like stray dogs to the anthem of night long conversations of pulsing rhythms and random voltage voices in spite of themselves graceful as these raindrops creeping spermlike across the car window.”

— Bruce Cockburn

Bruce Cockburn Quote: “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.”

21. “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.”

— Bruce Cockburn

Bruce Cockburn Quote: “I have tried to keep Jesus the compassionate activist close to my heart, along with Jesus as portal to the cosmos, but I have long been leery of the dogma and doctrine that so many have attached to Christianity as well as to most other religions.”

22. “I have tried to keep Jesus the compassionate activist close to my heart, along with Jesus as portal to the cosmos, but I have long been leery of the dogma and doctrine that so many have attached to Christianity as well as to most other religions.”

— Bruce Cockburn

Bruce Cockburn Quote: “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.”

23. “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

Bruce Cockburn Quote: “The second half of the ’60s really was a kind of learning period, in terms of writing, for me.”

24. “The second half of the ’60s really was a kind of learning period, in terms of writing, for me.”

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Bruce Cockburn Quote: “There are some decision-makers in the world whose version of sanity is a little different from what I consider the right one.”

25. “There are some decision-makers in the world whose version of sanity is a little different from what I consider the right one.”

— Bruce Cockburn

Bruce Cockburn Quote: “I did a lot of writing for a lot of different kinds of bands that I was in and out of during those five years and that left me with a little body of songs that I liked better when I played alone, so I ended up going out solo and very soon made my first album.”

26. “I did a lot of writing for a lot of different kinds of bands that I was in and out of during those five years and that left me with a little body of songs that I liked better when I played alone, so I ended up going out solo and very soon made my first album.”

— Bruce Cockburn

Bruce Cockburn Quote: “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.”

27. “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

Bruce Cockburn Quote: “Since the early ’80s, I’ve found myself in war zones in various parts of the world.”

28. “Since the early ’80s, I’ve found myself in war zones in various parts of the world.”

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Bruce Cockburn Quote: “I remember when the idea of living to be 40 seemed absurd.”

29. “I remember when the idea of living to be 40 seemed absurd.”

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Bruce Cockburn Quote: “A sane person doesn’t think war is a good idea.”

30. “A sane person doesn’t think war is a good idea.”

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Bruce Cockburn Quote: “The invitation for artists to compete to see who can be the most charitable is a wonderful thing.”

31. “The invitation for artists to compete to see who can be the most charitable is a wonderful thing.”

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Bruce Cockburn Quote: “Sometimes you find yourself... pacing the cage.”

32. “Sometimes you find yourself... pacing the cage.”

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Bruce Cockburn Quote: “Beautiful rocks – beautiful grass Beautiful soil where they both combine Beautiful river – covering sky Never thought of possession, but all this was mine.”

33. “Beautiful rocks – beautiful grass Beautiful soil where they both combine Beautiful river – covering sky Never thought of possession, but all this was mine.”

— Bruce Cockburn

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