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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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Singer-Songwriter
Gordon Meredith Lightfoot
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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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Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
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The strength of his will was the tool of his trade.
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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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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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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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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 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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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.
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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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Give me a wave I can ride upon, come and show your strength to me.
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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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Everything is trust, all the rest is dust.
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