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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: 85
Born: 1938
Born: November 17
Actor
Guitarist
Musician
Poet
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Gordon Meredith Lightfoot
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Rainy
Sadness
Rise
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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.
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Sometimes I think it's a shame, when I get feeling better when I'm feeling no pain.
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There is always something wrong with a song, you can't be perfect.
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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.
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I can remember sitting in a cabin outside of Denver writing that with a can of soup on the stove.
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Everything is trust, all the rest is dust.
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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.
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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.
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Give me a wave I can ride upon, come and show your strength to me.
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If there's a reason for the way that life is I'd like to find it. After all, who's life is it?
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She is my flower and she blooms for the one who loves her best.
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My parents got my sister and I to go to church and have piano lessons. We were keen and they could see that.
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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.
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To wear the crown of peace, you must wear the crown of thorns.
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She been looking like a queen in a sailor's dream.
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I was a drummer in the bugle band in cadets. I marched. It's probably quite funny to look back on it.
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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.
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I can see her lying back in her faded dress in a room where do what you don't confess.
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