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There is always something wrong with a song, you can't be perfect.
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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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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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.
Gordon Lightfoot
Give me a wave I can ride upon, come and show your strength to me.
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
Rainy day people all know there's no sorrow they can't rise above.
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
Sometimes I think it's a shame, when I get feeling better when I'm feeling no pain.
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 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.
Gordon Lightfoot
I had lots of friends who were fighting in Vietnam and I am still friends with veterans of the war.
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Sometimes a broken dream will make you sad or make you mean. Sometimes things ain't bad as they seem.
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
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
If there's a reason for the way that life is I'd like to find it. After all, who's life is it?
Gordon Lightfoot
I play piano, but not well enough to play professionally.
Gordon Lightfoot
All that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters.
Gordon Lightfoot
She been looking like a queen in a sailor's dream.
Gordon Lightfoot
It seems so lucky to just to have the right of telling you with all my might, you're beautiful tonight.
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
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
