Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The strength of his will was the tool of his trade.
Gordon Lightfoot
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Gordon Lightfoot
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: November 17
Actor
Guitarist
Musician
Poet
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Gordon Meredith Lightfoot
Jr.
Tools
Trade
Strength
Work
Tool
More quotes by Gordon Lightfoot
She is my flower and she blooms for the one who loves her best.
Gordon Lightfoot
I don't know where we went wrong, but the feeling's gone and I just can't get it back.
Gordon Lightfoot
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.
Gordon Lightfoot
I play piano, but not well enough to play professionally.
Gordon Lightfoot
My parents got my sister and I to go to church and have piano lessons. We were keen and they could see that.
Gordon Lightfoot
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.
Gordon Lightfoot
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.
Gordon Lightfoot
I had lots of friends who were fighting in Vietnam and I am still friends with veterans of the war.
Gordon Lightfoot
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.
Gordon Lightfoot
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.
Gordon Lightfoot
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.
Gordon Lightfoot
Those who put their faith in fire, in fire their faith shall be repaid.
Gordon Lightfoot
Sometimes a broken dream will make you sad or make you mean. Sometimes things ain't bad as they seem.
Gordon Lightfoot
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.
Gordon Lightfoot
She been looking like a queen in a sailor's dream.
Gordon Lightfoot
I worked in a plant when I was 14 for two years. I always wanted to do the summer jobs. Honest to God, I always had to be doing something.
Gordon Lightfoot
Rainy day people all know there's no sorrow they can't rise above.
Gordon Lightfoot
I liked the American folk style of Woody Guthrie.
Gordon Lightfoot
I'm not really a bird person or an Audubon guy who studies them, but as I was around them, they interested me.
Gordon Lightfoot
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.
Gordon Lightfoot
