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The strength of his will was the tool of his trade.
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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Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
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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 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 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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There is always something wrong with a song, you can't be perfect.
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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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Everything is trust, all the rest is dust.
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She is my flower and she blooms for the one who loves her best.
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Give me a wave I can ride upon, come and show your strength to me.
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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'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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Those who put their faith in fire, in fire their faith shall be repaid.
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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 can remember sitting in a cabin outside of Denver writing that with a can of soup on the stove.
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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 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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I play piano, but not well enough to play professionally.
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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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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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