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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: 86
Born: 1938
Born: November 17
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Gordon Meredith Lightfoot
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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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Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
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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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Everything is trust, all the rest is dust.
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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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Sometimes a broken dream will make you sad or make you mean. Sometimes things ain't bad as they seem.
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She is my flower and she blooms for the one who loves her best.
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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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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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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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All that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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There is always something wrong with a song, you can't be perfect.
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