Quote

When love is true there is no truer occupation.

Gordon Lightfoot

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Gordon Lightfoot
Age: 85
Born: 1938
Born: November 17
Actor
Guitarist
Musician
Poet
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Gordon Meredith Lightfoot
Jr.
Truer
Adages
Occupation
True
Love

More quotes by Gordon Lightfoot

Image
I had lots of friends who were fighting in Vietnam and I am still friends with veterans of the war.
Gordon Lightfoot
Image
Sometimes a broken dream will make you sad or make you mean. Sometimes things ain't bad as they seem.
Gordon Lightfoot
Image
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.
Gordon Lightfoot
Image
I can see her lying back in her faded dress in a room where do what you don't confess.
Gordon Lightfoot
Image
I don't know where we went wrong, but the feeling's gone and I just can't get it back.
Gordon Lightfoot
Image
I liked the American folk style of Woody Guthrie.
Gordon Lightfoot
Image
It seems so lucky to just to have the right of telling you with all my might, you're beautiful tonight.
Gordon Lightfoot
Image
I'm not really a bird person or an Audubon guy who studies them, but as I was around them, they interested me.
Gordon Lightfoot
Image
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.
Gordon Lightfoot
Image
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.
Gordon Lightfoot
Image
She is my flower and she blooms for the one who loves her best.
Gordon Lightfoot
Image
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.
Gordon Lightfoot
Image
Those who put their faith in fire, in fire their faith shall be repaid.
Gordon Lightfoot
Image
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.
Gordon Lightfoot
Image
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.
Gordon Lightfoot
Image
My parents got my sister and I to go to church and have piano lessons. We were keen and they could see that.
Gordon Lightfoot
Image
To wear the crown of peace, you must wear the crown of thorns.
Gordon Lightfoot
Image
I play piano, but not well enough to play professionally.
Gordon Lightfoot
Image
Will you gather daydreams or will you gather wealth? How can you find your fortune when you cannot find yourself?
Gordon Lightfoot
Image
Give me a wave I can ride upon, come and show your strength to me.
Gordon Lightfoot