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I was a drummer in the bugle band in cadets. I marched. It's probably quite funny to look back on it.
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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She is my flower and she blooms for the one who loves her best.
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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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It seems so lucky to just to have the right of telling you with all my might, you're beautiful tonight.
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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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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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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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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'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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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 play piano, but not well enough to play professionally.
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When love is true there is no truer occupation.
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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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Those who put their faith in fire, in fire their faith shall be repaid.
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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 had lots of friends who were fighting in Vietnam and I am still friends with veterans of the war.
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