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Sometimes a broken dream will make you sad or make you mean. Sometimes things ain't bad as they seem.
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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I liked the American folk style of Woody Guthrie.
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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.
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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.
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Give me a wave I can ride upon, come and show your strength to me.
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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.
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When love is true there is no truer occupation.
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Those who put their faith in fire, in fire their faith shall be repaid.
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Everything is trust, all the rest is dust.
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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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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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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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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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The strength of his will was the tool of his trade.
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There is always something wrong with a song, you can't be perfect.
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I'm not really a bird person or an Audubon guy who studies them, but as I was around them, they interested me.
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All that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters.
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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 don't know where we went wrong, but the feeling's gone and I just can't get it back.
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Will you gather daydreams or will you gather wealth? How can you find your fortune when you cannot find yourself?
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Rainy day people all know there's no sorrow they can't rise above.
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