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The strength of his will was the tool of his trade.
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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When love is true there is no truer occupation.
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I never really had stage nerves but I did have had trouble getting up to the right energy level. For a long time I drank. I drank up until 1982 and then I gave up alcohol.
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She is my flower and she blooms for the one who loves her best.
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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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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 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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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 don't know where we went wrong, but the feeling's gone and I just can't get it back.
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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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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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Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
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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 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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Give me a wave I can ride upon, come and show your strength to me.
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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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All that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters.
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She been looking like a queen in a sailor's dream.
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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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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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