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When love is true there is no truer occupation.

Gordon Lightfoot

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Gordon Lightfoot
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: November 17
Actor
Guitarist
Musician
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Singer-Songwriter
Gordon Meredith Lightfoot
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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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Give me a wave I can ride upon, come and show your strength to me.
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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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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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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.
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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 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 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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I liked the American folk style of Woody Guthrie.
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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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I got to sing solo in the junior choir when I was 10 or 11 and won a competition, and my sister's piano playing improved to a certain level. One time my sister and I worked together. The first song we ever sang in High School was Rags to Riches by Tony Bennett.
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There is always something wrong with a song, you can't be perfect.
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To wear the crown of peace, you must wear the crown of thorns.
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I play piano, but not well enough to play professionally.
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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'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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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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