Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
I'm not really a bird person or an Audubon guy who studies them, but as I was around them, they interested me.
Gordon Lightfoot
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Gordon Lightfoot
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: November 17
Actor
Guitarist
Musician
Poet
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Gordon Meredith Lightfoot
Jr.
Interested
Study
Guy
Around
Persons
Person
Really
Studies
Bird
More quotes by Gordon Lightfoot
My parents got my sister and I to go to church and have piano lessons. We were keen and they could see that.
Gordon Lightfoot
I play piano, but not well enough to play professionally.
Gordon Lightfoot
There is always something wrong with a song, you can't be perfect.
Gordon Lightfoot
I worked in a plant when I was 14 for two years. I always wanted to do the summer jobs. Honest to God, I always had to be doing something.
Gordon Lightfoot
Rainy day people all know there's no sorrow they can't rise above.
Gordon Lightfoot
I liked the American folk style of Woody Guthrie.
Gordon Lightfoot
I can see her lying back in her faded dress in a room where do what you don't confess.
Gordon Lightfoot
I took the song The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face from a folk singer called Bonnie Dobson. I knew her and she had a record with that track on it.
Gordon Lightfoot
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.
Gordon Lightfoot
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.
Gordon Lightfoot
I don't know where we went wrong, but the feeling's gone and I just can't get it back.
Gordon Lightfoot
To wear the crown of peace, you must wear the crown of thorns.
Gordon Lightfoot
Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
Gordon Lightfoot
Let our hearts touch far horizons. Let our love know no borders, Draw the Circles wide until, No one stands alone.
Gordon Lightfoot
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.
Gordon Lightfoot
When love is true there is no truer occupation.
Gordon Lightfoot
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.
Gordon Lightfoot
If there's a reason for the way that life is I'd like to find it. After all, who's life is it?
Gordon Lightfoot
My first song was Hula Hoop Song, in 1955. It was a novelty song. I had to find someway to reach out and it was with a novelty song. Now, all of my recording obligations have been taken care of. I made 14 albums for Warner Brothers. Five for United Artist before that.
Gordon Lightfoot
I had lots of friends who were fighting in Vietnam and I am still friends with veterans of the war.
Gordon Lightfoot
