Quotes: Bruce Cockburn

"Pay attention to the poet. You need him and you know it."

–– Bruce Cockburn (b. 1945), Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist  

Source: Globe and Mail Letter to the Editor, Saturday September 11, 2021, p. 010. 

via: Knapsack Art Alternatives Sketchbook J 2020-2023, p. 18.

Quotes: Bruce Cockburn

"The trouble with normal is it always gets worse." 

–– Bruce Cockburn (b. 1945), Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist 

via Sketchbook 14, 2011, p. 140 

Quotes: Normal?

"Nobody realizes that some people extend tremendous energy merely to be normal." – Albert Camus


"Why be happy when you could be normal?" – Jeanette Winterson, (title of her 2011 memoir)


"I live life in the margins of society and the rules of normal society don't apply to those who live on the fringe." – Tamara de Lempicka, Polish-Russian artistocrat & painter


"The trouble with normal is it always gets worse." – Bruce Cockburn


"My darling girl, when are you going to understand that 'normal' isn't a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." – Stockard Channing as Frances Owens in Practical Magic