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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?
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 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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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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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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She is my flower and she blooms for the one who loves her best.
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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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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 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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When love is true there is no truer occupation.
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Everything is trust, all the rest is dust.
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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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Let our hearts touch far horizons. Let our love know no borders, Draw the Circles wide until, No one stands alone.
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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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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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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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Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
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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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Sometimes I think it's a shame, when I get feeling better when I'm feeling no pain.
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