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Sometimes I think it's a shame, when I get feeling better when I'm feeling no pain.
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 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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Sometimes a broken dream will make you sad or make you mean. Sometimes things ain't bad as they seem.
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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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I liked the American folk style of Woody Guthrie.
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Everything is trust, all the rest is dust.
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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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I can see her lying back in her faded dress in a room where do what you don't confess.
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To wear the crown of peace, you must wear the crown of thorns.
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Rainy day people all know there's no sorrow they can't rise above.
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She been looking like a queen in a sailor's dream.
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Those who put their faith in fire, in fire their faith shall be repaid.
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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 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 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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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.
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There is always something wrong with a song, you can't be perfect.
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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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When love is true there is no truer occupation.
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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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I play piano, but not well enough to play professionally.
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