Tom Cochrane Quotes

#1. Americans don't usually have to think about Canadian-American relations, or, as they would put it, American-Canadian relations. Why think about something which you believe affects you so little? We, on the other hand, have to think about you whether we like it or not.

Margaret Atwood

#2. Very often out of adversity that's when the best work comes.

Tom Cochrane

#3. You Look so much better When You Smile - so smile ...

Kirk Franklin

#4. Mistakes don't make you a failure, but beating yourself up makes you feel like one.

Frank Sonnenberg

#5. Do Tasmanian devils really exist?

Tom Cochrane

#6. I believe a lot of disease comes from anxiety, loneliness.

Tom Cochrane

#7. Life is a highway. I want to ride it all night long

Tom Cochrane

#8. Having the tattoo itself is not really for the end result for me. I like having them done.

Lena Headey

#9. I think if you're a good songwriter, that's what you are first - not a star or celebrity.

Tom Cochrane

#10. The blessings of the priesthood are available to every righteous man and woman. We may all receive the Holy Ghost, obtain personal revelation, and be endowed in the temple, from which we emerge 'armed' with power.

Sheri L. Dew

#11. One thus sees that a new kind of theory is needed which drops these basic commitments and at most recovers some essential features of the older theories as abstract forms derived from a deeper reality in which what prevails in unbroken wholeness.

David Bohm

#12. Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes.

Tom Cochrane

#13. I make a living doing what I love doing, and it's what brings me joy.

Tom Cochrane

#14. Arthur," she said, "there are some things quite beyond your powers."
"Yes, I know," he said steadily. "But if no one ever tries to strive against them no one will ever succeed. We must simply do our best, you know. And hope.

L.J.Smith

#15. Australia and Canada were settled by adventurers, they had to break new ground. I think that is indelibly etched on our cultural spirit.

Tom Cochrane

#16. We always thought we had to follow a certain theme but I don't agree with that anymore. I think the fans deserve a wider variety of music.

Tom Cochrane

#17. I even got letters form kids in hospitals saying the music is what keeps them going, and that really touched my heart.

Tom Cochrane

#18. I think of you when I hear Rod Stewart's Face's album. Maggie May in particular. Everyone has a song, you have an album.

Tom Cochrane

#19. I didn't really care about sales figures. I just wanted to get things off my chest.

Tom Cochrane

#20. mail-outs. As missionaries have always understood, the key is to study the culture you are passionate about reaching and submerge into that space with respect and love.

Jen Hatmaker

#21. As a songwriter, if you can touch people and make them feel a little less alone in the world, then you've done your job.

Tom Cochrane

#22. I don't get mad too much.

Tom Cochrane