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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.

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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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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She been looking like a queen in a sailor's dream.
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I took the song The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face from a folk singer called Bonnie Dobson. I knew her and she had a record with that track on it.
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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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Rainy day people all know there's no sorrow they can't rise above.
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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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Everything is trust, all the rest is dust.
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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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Sometimes I think it's a shame, when I get feeling better when I'm feeling no pain.
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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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The strength of his will was the tool of his trade.
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I liked the American folk style of Woody Guthrie.
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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 had lots of friends who were fighting in Vietnam and I am still friends with veterans of the war.
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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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I can see her lying back in her faded dress in a room where do what you don't confess.
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I play piano, but not well enough to play professionally.
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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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She is my flower and she blooms for the one who loves her best.
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