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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?

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Gordon Lightfoot
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: November 17
Actor
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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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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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To wear the crown of peace, you must wear the crown of thorns.
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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 play piano, but not well enough to play professionally.
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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 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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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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The strength of his will was the tool of his trade.
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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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I had lots of friends who were fighting in Vietnam and I am still friends with veterans of the war.
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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'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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All that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters.
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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 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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She been looking like a queen in a sailor's dream.
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