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I try to keep it light and positive most of the time, whereas earlier on I didn't always do that.
— Gordon Lightfoot
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.
— Gordon Lightfoot
I liked the American folk style of Woody Guthrie.
— Gordon Lightfoot
I never got really good at hockey.
— Gordon Lightfoot
Words are for explaining the mistakes we might have made, names are for calling when there is nothing left to say.
— Gordon Lightfoot
I can remember sitting in a cabin outside of Denver writing that with a can of soup on the stove.
— Gordon Lightfoot
Will you gather daydreams or will you gather wealth? How can you find your fortune when you cannot find yourself?
— Gordon Lightfoot
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.
— Gordon Lightfoot
If you plan to face tomorrow, do it soon.
— Gordon Lightfoot
I was a drummer in the bugle band in cadets. I marched. It's probably quite funny to look back on it.
— Gordon Lightfoot
Sometimes a broken dream will make you sad or make you mean. Sometimes things ain't bad as they seem.
— Gordon Lightfoot
Sometimes I think it's a shame, when I get feeling better when I'm feeling no pain.
— Gordon Lightfoot
You just get the vibes of your surroundings and it rubs off on you.
— Gordon Lightfoot
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.
— Gordon Lightfoot
When love is true there is no truer occupation.
— Gordon Lightfoot
To wear the crown of peace, you must wear the crown of thorns.
— Gordon Lightfoot
All that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters.
— Gordon Lightfoot
I play piano, but not well enough to play professionally.
— Gordon Lightfoot
Getting lost in her loving is your first mistake.
— Gordon Lightfoot
I don't think they should regulate the music field. I don't see how they can regulate the arts.
— Gordon Lightfoot
If there's a reason for the way that life is I'd like to find it. After all, who's life is it?
— Gordon Lightfoot
She been looking like a queen in a sailor's dream.
— Gordon Lightfoot
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
Think about the fool who by his virtue can be found in a most unusual situation playing jester to the clown.
— Gordon Lightfoot
Be calm in the face of all common disgraces.
— Gordon Lightfoot
I don't know where we went wrong, but the feeling's gone and I just can't get it back.
— Gordon Lightfoot
Everything is trust, all the rest is dust.
— Gordon Lightfoot
Rainy day people all know there's no sorrow they can't rise above.
— Gordon Lightfoot
I can see her lying back in her faded dress in a room where do what you don't confess.
— Gordon Lightfoot
People have told me I look like Gordon Lightfoot.
— Chris Pratt
The strength of his will was the tool of his trade.
— 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
You will go with me everywhere. When I'm dreaming, you still share my lonely nights.
— Gordon Lightfoot
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
Those who put their faith in fire, in fire their faith shall be repaid.
— Gordon Lightfoot
If I could read your mind, what a tale your thoughts could tell. Just like a paperback novel, the kind that drugstores sell.
— 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
Give me a wave I can ride upon, come and show your strength to me.
— Gordon Lightfoot
She is my flower and she blooms for the one who loves her best.
— Gordon Lightfoot
Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
— Gordon Lightfoot
The house you live in will never fall down, if you pity the stranger who stands at your door.
— Gordon Lightfoot
Let our hearts touch far horizons.Let our love know no borders,
Draw the Circles wide until,
No one stands alone. — Gordon Lightfoot
The road to love is littered by the bones of other ones, who by the magic of the moment were mysteriously undone.
— Gordon Lightfoot
I had lots of friends who were fighting in Vietnam and I am still friends with veterans of the war.
— Gordon Lightfoot
It seems so lucky to just to have the right of telling you with all my might, you're beautiful tonight.
— Gordon Lightfoot
