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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
Actor
Guitarist
Musician
Poet
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Singer-Songwriter
Gordon Meredith Lightfoot
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I liked the American folk style of Woody Guthrie.
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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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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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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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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 had lots of friends who were fighting in Vietnam and I am still friends with veterans of the war.
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My parents got my sister and I to go to church and have piano lessons. We were keen and they could see that.
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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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There is always something wrong with a song, you can't be perfect.
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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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Rainy day people all know there's no sorrow they can't rise above.
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Everything is trust, all the rest is dust.
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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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Give me a wave I can ride upon, come and show your strength to me.
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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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Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
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