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Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?

Gordon Lightfoot

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Gordon Lightfoot
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: November 17
Actor
Guitarist
Musician
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Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Gordon Meredith Lightfoot
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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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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'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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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 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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I had lots of friends who were fighting in Vietnam and I am still friends with veterans of the war.
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She is my flower and she blooms for the one who loves her best.
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She been looking like a queen in a sailor's dream.
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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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There is always something wrong with a song, you can't be perfect.
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The strength of his will was the tool of his trade.
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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 can see her lying back in her faded dress in a room where do what you don't confess.
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I play piano, but not well enough to play professionally.
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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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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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To wear the crown of peace, you must wear the crown of thorns.
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I liked the American folk style of Woody Guthrie.
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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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