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To wear the crown of peace, you must wear the crown of thorns.

Gordon Lightfoot

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Gordon Lightfoot
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: November 17
Actor
Guitarist
Musician
Poet
Singer
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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All that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters.
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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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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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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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Give me a wave I can ride upon, come and show your strength to me.
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I play piano, but not well enough to play professionally.
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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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Rainy day people all know there's no sorrow they can't rise above.
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Everything is trust, all the rest is dust.
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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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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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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 had lots of friends who were fighting in Vietnam and I am still friends with veterans of the war.
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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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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'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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