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Rainy day people all know there's no sorrow they can't rise above.
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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More quotes by 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 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
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
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 liked the American folk style of Woody Guthrie.
Gordon Lightfoot
I was a drummer in the bugle band in cadets. I marched. It's probably quite funny to look back on it.
Gordon Lightfoot
Will you gather daydreams or will you gather wealth? How can you find your fortune when you cannot find yourself?
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
She been looking like a queen in a sailor's dream.
Gordon Lightfoot
Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
Gordon Lightfoot
There is always something wrong with a song, you can't be perfect.
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
All that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters.
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
Let our hearts touch far horizons. Let our love know no borders, Draw the Circles wide until, No one stands alone.
Gordon Lightfoot
Everything is trust, all the rest is dust.
Gordon Lightfoot
I can remember sitting in a cabin outside of Denver writing that with a can of soup on the stove.
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 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
