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All that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters.
Gordon Lightfoot
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Gordon Lightfoot
Age: 85
Born: 1938
Born: November 17
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Gordon Meredith Lightfoot
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My parents got my sister and I to go to church and have piano lessons. We were keen and they could see that.
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Let our hearts touch far horizons. Let our love know no borders, Draw the Circles wide until, No one stands alone.
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I can remember sitting in a cabin outside of Denver writing that with a can of soup on the stove.
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Those who put their faith in fire, in fire their faith shall be repaid.
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If there's a reason for the way that life is I'd like to find it. After all, who's life is it?
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I never really had stage nerves but I did have had trouble getting up to the right energy level. For a long time I drank. I drank up until 1982 and then I gave up alcohol.
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It seems so lucky to just to have the right of telling you with all my might, you're beautiful tonight.
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I try to write songs. At our concerts, we take the cream of the crop from my back catalogue and I don't know if I could write something now that would replace any of that. We don't lose any of the standards. We have lots of songs in rotation.
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There is always something wrong with a song, you can't be perfect.
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I don't know where we went wrong, but the feeling's gone and I just can't get it back.
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I got to sing solo in the junior choir when I was 10 or 11 and won a competition, and my sister's piano playing improved to a certain level. One time my sister and I worked together. The first song we ever sang in High School was Rags to Riches by Tony Bennett.
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Of course I knew The Band's Canadian keyboard player, the late Richard Manuel, but I didn't play that night because I was there as a guest with my record executives. People ask, why didn't you play? If I had known I was going to be playing then I would have been prepared for it.
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I liked the American folk style of Woody Guthrie.
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I had lots of friends who were fighting in Vietnam and I am still friends with veterans of the war.
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She is my flower and she blooms for the one who loves her best.
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I once performed The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald to about 15 sea captains. The song was about a ship that broke in half and sank.
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I'm a little nuts. I'm a lot nuts. All I know is that in the midst of the madness of this world it's my therapy. The music touches my heartstrings.
Gordon Lightfoot
I play piano, but not well enough to play professionally.
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I was a drummer in the bugle band in cadets. I marched. It's probably quite funny to look back on it.
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I'm not really a bird person or an Audubon guy who studies them, but as I was around them, they interested me.
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