I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and compos… — Bruce Cockburn

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 CockburnMusician · Canadian · b. 1945

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I think a lot of it is that we used to tour so much that we never really had time to write songs. — Mike Lowry
But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry. — John Drinkwater
The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book. — Samuel Johnson
The second half of the '60s really was a kind of learning period, in terms of writing, for me. — Bruce Cockburn
There was a lot more music than the size of the place would indicate. — Bruce Cockburn
If I had a rocket launcher, some son of a bitch would die. — Bruce Cockburn