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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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There is always something wrong with a song, you can't be perfect.
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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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Those who put their faith in fire, in fire their faith shall be repaid.
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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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Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
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When love is true there is no truer occupation.
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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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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'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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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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I can see her lying back in her faded dress in a room where do what you don't confess.
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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 can remember sitting in a cabin outside of Denver writing that with a can of soup on the stove.
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