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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: 86
Born: 1938
Born: November 17
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Gordon Meredith Lightfoot
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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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When love is true there is no truer occupation.
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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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There is always something wrong with a song, you can't be perfect.
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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
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.
Gordon Lightfoot
Everything is trust, all the rest is dust.
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She been looking like a queen in a sailor's dream.
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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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I liked the American folk style of Woody Guthrie.
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Those who put their faith in fire, in fire their faith shall be repaid.
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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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Will you gather daydreams or will you gather wealth? How can you find your fortune when you cannot find yourself?
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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 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 can see her lying back in her faded dress in a room where do what you don't confess.
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
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'm not really a bird person or an Audubon guy who studies them, but as I was around them, they interested me.
Gordon Lightfoot
