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I play piano, but not well enough to play professionally.

Gordon Lightfoot

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Gordon Lightfoot
Age: 85
Born: 1938
Born: November 17
Actor
Guitarist
Musician
Poet
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Gordon Meredith Lightfoot
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Play
Enough
Professionally
Piano
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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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All that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters.
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Sometimes a broken dream will make you sad or make you mean. Sometimes things ain't bad as they seem.
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Give me a wave I can ride upon, come and show your strength to me.
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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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There is always something wrong with a song, you can't be perfect.
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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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When love is true there is no truer occupation.
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To wear the crown of peace, you must wear the crown of thorns.
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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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I liked the American folk style of Woody Guthrie.
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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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She is my flower and she blooms for the one who loves her best.
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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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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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Rainy day people all know there's no sorrow they can't rise above.
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I was in Britain that year [1963] and some music publishing people in Denmark Street in London suggested me to the BBC. So I found myself in front of a British television show, which was a nice surprise.
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The strength of his will was the tool of his trade.
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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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