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Will you gather daydreams or will you gather wealth? How can you find your fortune when you cannot find yourself?
Gordon Lightfoot
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Gordon Lightfoot
Age: 85
Born: 1938
Born: November 17
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Gordon Meredith Lightfoot
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When love is true there is no truer occupation.
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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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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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Rainy day people all know there's no sorrow they can't rise above.
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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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Sometimes a broken dream will make you sad or make you mean. Sometimes things ain't bad as they seem.
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Everything is trust, all the rest is dust.
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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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I liked the American folk style of Woody Guthrie.
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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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The strength of his will was the tool of his trade.
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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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Those who put their faith in fire, in fire their faith shall be repaid.
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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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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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Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
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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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Give me a wave I can ride upon, come and show your strength to me.
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