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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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She is my flower and she blooms for the one who loves her best.
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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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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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It seems so lucky to just to have the right of telling you with all my might, you're beautiful tonight.
Gordon Lightfoot
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
Everything is trust, all the rest is dust.
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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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Rainy day people all know there's no sorrow they can't rise above.
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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 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 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 can see her lying back in her faded dress in a room where do what you don't confess.
Gordon Lightfoot
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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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
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.
Gordon Lightfoot
All that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters.
Gordon Lightfoot
When love is true there is no truer occupation.
Gordon Lightfoot
The strength of his will was the tool of his trade.
Gordon Lightfoot
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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