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I had lots of friends who were fighting in Vietnam and I am still friends with veterans of the war.
Gordon Lightfoot
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Gordon Lightfoot
Age: 85
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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All that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters.
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When love is true there is no truer occupation.
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I liked the American folk style of Woody Guthrie.
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Rainy day people all know there's no sorrow they can't rise above.
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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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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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Give me a wave I can ride upon, come and show your strength to me.
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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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Sometimes I think it's a shame, when I get feeling better when I'm feeling no pain.
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There is always something wrong with a song, you can't be perfect.
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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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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 can remember sitting in a cabin outside of Denver writing that with a can of soup on the stove.
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Everything is trust, all the rest is dust.
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I never really had stage nerves but I did have had trouble getting up to the right energy level. For a long time I drank. I drank up until 1982 and then I gave up alcohol.
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To wear the crown of peace, you must wear the crown of thorns.
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The strength of his will was the tool of his trade.
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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 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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