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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: 86
Born: 1938
Born: November 17
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Gordon Meredith Lightfoot
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I liked the American folk style of Woody Guthrie.
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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 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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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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She is my flower and she blooms for the one who loves her best.
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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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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'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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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 can see her lying back in her faded dress in a room where do what you don't confess.
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Those who put their faith in fire, in fire their faith shall be repaid.
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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 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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Everything is trust, all the rest is dust.
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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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The strength of his will was the tool of his trade.
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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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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 can remember sitting in a cabin outside of Denver writing that with a can of soup on the stove.
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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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