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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.

Gordon Lightfoot

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Gordon Lightfoot
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: November 17
Actor
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Singer-Songwriter
Gordon Meredith Lightfoot
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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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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 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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I liked the American folk style of Woody Guthrie.
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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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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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To wear the crown of peace, you must wear the crown of thorns.
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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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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 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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Sometimes a broken dream will make you sad or make you mean. Sometimes things ain't bad as they seem.
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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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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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Will you gather daydreams or will you gather wealth? How can you find your fortune when you cannot find yourself?
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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 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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There is always something wrong with a song, you can't be perfect.
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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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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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