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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.
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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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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Sometimes a broken dream will make you sad or make you mean. Sometimes things ain't bad as they seem.
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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 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.
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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 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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I had lots of friends who were fighting in Vietnam and I am still friends with veterans of the war.
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She is my flower and she blooms for the one who loves her best.
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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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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 liked the American folk style of Woody Guthrie.
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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 play piano, but not well enough to play professionally.
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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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