Gordon Lightfoot Quotes

I try to keep it light and positive most of the time, whereas earlier on I didn't always do that.

What has changed for me is that I now have a huge family [Lightfoot has four children, from his first two marriages] - the result of my living.

I liked the American folk style of Woody Guthrie.

I never got really good at hockey.

Words are for explaining the mistakes we might have made, names are for calling when there is nothing left to say.

I can remember sitting in a cabin outside of Denver writing that with a can of soup on the stove.

Will you gather daydreams or will you gather wealth? How can you find your fortune when you cannot find yourself?

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.

If you plan to face tomorrow, do it soon.

I was a drummer in the bugle band in cadets. I marched. It's probably quite funny to look back on it.

Sometimes a broken dream will make you sad or make you mean. Sometimes things ain't bad as they seem.

Sometimes I think it's a shame, when I get feeling better when I'm feeling no pain.

You just get the vibes of your surroundings and it rubs off on you.

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.

When love is true there is no truer occupation.

To wear the crown of peace, you must wear the crown of thorns.

All that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters.

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

Getting lost in her loving is your first mistake.

I don't think they should regulate the music field. I don't see how they can regulate the arts.

If there's a reason for the way that life is I'd like to find it. After all, who's life is it?

My parents got my sister and I to go to church and have piano lessons. We were keen and they could see that.

I can see her lying back in her faded dress in a room where do what you don't confess.

Think about the fool who by his virtue can be found in a most unusual situation playing jester to the clown.

Be calm in the face of all common disgraces.

I don't know where we went wrong, but the feeling's gone and I just can't get it back.

Everything is trust, all the rest is dust.

Rainy day people all know there's no sorrow they can't rise above.

She been looking like a queen in a sailor's dream.

The strength of his will was the tool of his trade.

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.

You will go with me everywhere. When I'm dreaming, you still share my lonely nights.

I'm not really a bird person or an Audubon guy who studies them, but as I was around them, they interested me.

Those who put their faith in fire, in fire their faith shall be repaid.

If I could read your mind, what a tale your thoughts could tell. Just like a paperback novel, the kind that drugstores sell.

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.

Give me a wave I can ride upon, come and show your strength to me.

She is my flower and she blooms for the one who loves her best.

Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?

The house you live in will never fall down, if you pity the stranger who stands at your door.

Let our hearts touch far horizons.
Let our love know no borders,
Draw the Circles wide until,
No one stands alone.

The road to love is littered by the bones of other ones, who by the magic of the moment were mysteriously undone.

I had lots of friends who were fighting in Vietnam and I am still friends with veterans of the war.

It seems so lucky to just to have the right of telling you with all my might, you're beautiful tonight.

Whitecaps in profusion all around me, but somehow in your eyes I found the strength to sail upon that raging sea.

I was happy to be in England, because my mother had always loved the royals, and so do I.