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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

While certainly no pressing threat to Gordon Lightfoot, I knew it was simply a matter of time until I was going to be a star. — Dan Hill

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

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