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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
Actor
Guitarist
Musician
Poet
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Gordon Meredith Lightfoot
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Something
Always
Wrong
Perfect

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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.
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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 play piano, but not well enough to play professionally.
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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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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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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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All that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters.
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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 liked the American folk style of Woody Guthrie.
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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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To wear the crown of peace, you must wear the crown of thorns.
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Everything is trust, all the rest is dust.
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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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