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: 85
Born: 1938
Born: November 17
Actor
Guitarist
Musician
Poet
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Gordon Meredith Lightfoot
Jr.
Study
Guy
Around
Persons
Person
Really
Studies
Bird
Interested
More quotes by Gordon Lightfoot
When love is true there is no truer occupation.
Gordon Lightfoot
Everything is trust, all the rest is dust.
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
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
It seems so lucky to just to have the right of telling you with all my might, you're beautiful tonight.
Gordon Lightfoot
Sometimes a broken dream will make you sad or make you mean. Sometimes things ain't bad as they seem.
Gordon Lightfoot
Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
Gordon Lightfoot
Will you gather daydreams or will you gather wealth? How can you find your fortune when you cannot find yourself?
Gordon Lightfoot
She been looking like a queen in a sailor's dream.
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
Those who put their faith in fire, in fire their faith shall be repaid.
Gordon Lightfoot
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.
Gordon Lightfoot
I liked the American folk style of Woody Guthrie.
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
Sometimes I think it's a shame, when I get feeling better when I'm feeling no pain.
Gordon Lightfoot
Rainy day people all know there's no sorrow they can't rise above.
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
All that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters.
Gordon Lightfoot
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 don't know where we went wrong, but the feeling's gone and I just can't get it back.
Gordon Lightfoot
