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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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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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There is always something wrong with a song, you can't be perfect.
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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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Those who put their faith in fire, in fire their faith shall be repaid.
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She been looking like a queen in a sailor's dream.
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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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I can remember sitting in a cabin outside of Denver writing that with a can of soup on the stove.
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The strength of his will was the tool of his trade.
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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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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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When love is true there is no truer occupation.
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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 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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Sometimes I think it's a shame, when I get feeling better when I'm feeling no pain.
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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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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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Rainy day people all know there's no sorrow they can't rise above.
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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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