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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: 85
Born: 1938
Born: November 17
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Gordon Meredith Lightfoot
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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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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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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 took the song The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face from a folk singer called Bonnie Dobson. I knew her and she had a record with that track on 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 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 is always something wrong with a song, you can't be perfect.
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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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Will you gather daydreams or will you gather wealth? How can you find your fortune when you cannot find yourself?
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I play piano, but not well enough to play professionally.
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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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All that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters.
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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 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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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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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 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 had lots of friends who were fighting in Vietnam and I am still friends with veterans of the war.
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