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Everything is trust, all the rest is dust.

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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Everything
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Dust
Trust
Rest

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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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Silent waters rocking on the morning of our birth, like an empty cradle waiting to be filled. And from the heart of God the Spirit moved upon the earth, like a mother breathing life into her child.
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The strength of his will was the tool of his trade.
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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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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'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 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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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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Give me a wave I can ride upon, come and show your strength to me.
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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 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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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 play piano, but not well enough to play professionally.
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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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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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Sometimes I think it's a shame, when I get feeling better when I'm feeling no pain.
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She is my flower and she blooms for the one who loves her best.
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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 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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Rainy day people all know there's no sorrow they can't rise above.
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