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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: 85
Born: 1938
Born: November 17
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Gordon Meredith Lightfoot
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She is my flower and she blooms for the one who loves her best.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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All that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters.
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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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Will you gather daydreams or will you gather wealth? How can you find your fortune when you cannot find yourself?
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Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
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Let our hearts touch far horizons. Let our love know no borders, Draw the Circles wide until, No one stands alone.
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She been looking like a queen in a sailor's dream.
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I play piano, but not well enough to play professionally.
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It seems so lucky to just to have the right of telling you with all my might, you're beautiful tonight.
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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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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 had lots of friends who were fighting in Vietnam and I am still friends with veterans of the war.
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Everything is trust, all the rest is dust.
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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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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.
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