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Give me a wave I can ride upon, come and show your strength to me.
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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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
Those who put their faith in fire, in fire their faith shall be repaid.
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
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
The strength of his will was the tool of his trade.
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
Everything is trust, all the rest is dust.
Gordon Lightfoot
Rainy day people all know there's no sorrow they can't rise above.
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
Silent waters rocking on the morning of our birth, like an empty cradle waiting to be filled. And from the heart of God the Spirit moved upon the earth, like a mother breathing life into her child.
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
I had lots of friends who were fighting in Vietnam and I am still friends with veterans of the war.
Gordon Lightfoot
I can remember sitting in a cabin outside of Denver writing that with a can of soup on the stove.
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 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
When love is true there is no truer occupation.
Gordon Lightfoot
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
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
