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She is my flower and she blooms for the one who loves her best.

Gordon Lightfoot

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Gordon Lightfoot
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: November 17
Actor
Guitarist
Musician
Poet
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Gordon Meredith Lightfoot
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Flower
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Blooms

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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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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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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.
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Will you gather daydreams or will you gather wealth? How can you find your fortune when you cannot find yourself?
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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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Those who put their faith in fire, in fire their faith shall be repaid.
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To wear the crown of peace, you must wear the crown of thorns.
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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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All that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters.
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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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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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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 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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There is always something wrong with a song, you can't be perfect.
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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 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 can remember sitting in a cabin outside of Denver writing that with a can of soup on the stove.
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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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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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