Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Gordon Lightfoot
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: November 17
Actor
Guitarist
Musician
Poet
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Gordon Meredith Lightfoot
Jr.
Nuts
Therapy
Midst
Madness
Littles
Music
Little
Heartstrings
World
Touches

More quotes by Gordon Lightfoot

Image
The strength of his will was the tool of his trade.
Gordon Lightfoot
Image
I liked the American folk style of Woody Guthrie.
Gordon Lightfoot
Image
Will you gather daydreams or will you gather wealth? How can you find your fortune when you cannot find yourself?
Gordon Lightfoot
Image
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.
Gordon Lightfoot
Image
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
Image
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
Image
Those who put their faith in fire, in fire their faith shall be repaid.
Gordon Lightfoot
Image
I was in Britain that year [1963] and some music publishing people in Denmark Street in London suggested me to the BBC. So I found myself in front of a British television show, which was a nice surprise.
Gordon Lightfoot
Image
Give me a wave I can ride upon, come and show your strength to me.
Gordon Lightfoot
Image
I was a drummer in the bugle band in cadets. I marched. It's probably quite funny to look back on it.
Gordon Lightfoot
Image
It was very interesting time to be in England. Even at that point [John] Lennon and [Paul] McCartney influenced my writing. I thought, maybe there is a huck or two in here I haven't thought of.
Gordon Lightfoot
Image
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
Image
Sometimes I think it's a shame, when I get feeling better when I'm feeling no pain.
Gordon Lightfoot
Image
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
Image
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
Image
I can see her lying back in her faded dress in a room where do what you don't confess.
Gordon Lightfoot
Image
She is my flower and she blooms for the one who loves her best.
Gordon Lightfoot
Image
I can remember sitting in a cabin outside of Denver writing that with a can of soup on the stove.
Gordon Lightfoot
Image
Let our hearts touch far horizons. Let our love know no borders, Draw the Circles wide until, No one stands alone.
Gordon Lightfoot
Image
She been looking like a queen in a sailor's dream.
Gordon Lightfoot