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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: 86
Born: 1938
Born: November 17
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Gordon Meredith Lightfoot
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Sometimes a broken dream will make you sad or make you mean. Sometimes things ain't bad as they seem.
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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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She been looking like a queen in a sailor's dream.
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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.
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There is always something wrong with a song, you can't be perfect.
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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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To wear the crown of peace, you must wear the crown of thorns.
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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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Those who put their faith in fire, in fire their faith shall be repaid.
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Everything is trust, all the rest is dust.
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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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There was a TV show called Thank Your Lucky Stars, with the catchphrase I'll give it five! The Beatles and Stones were so popular when they were on it. One week The Beatles were number one and then the Stones were right on their heels.
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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 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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I had lots of friends who were fighting in Vietnam and I am still friends with veterans of the war.
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Sometimes I think it's a shame, when I get feeling better when I'm feeling no pain.
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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 liked the American folk style of Woody Guthrie.
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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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Will you gather daydreams or will you gather wealth? How can you find your fortune when you cannot find yourself?
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