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. Gordon Lightfoot More Quotes by Gordon Lightfoot More Quotes From Gordon Lightfoot Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours? Gordon Lightfoot unanswered-questions god-love doe Let our hearts touch far horizons. Gordon Lightfoot circles borders heart Will you gather daydreams or will you gather wealth? How can you find your fortune when you cannot find yourself? Gordon Lightfoot finding-yourself wealth philosophy If you plan to face tomorrow, do it soon. Gordon Lightfoot adages tomorrow faces 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 nuts littles world 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 media mind art Rainy day people all know there's no sorrow they can't rise above. Gordon Lightfoot rainy-day sadness people You will go with me everywhere. When I'm dreaming, you still share my lonely nights. Gordon Lightfoot lonely dream romantic Those who put their faith in fire, in fire their faith shall be repaid. Gordon Lightfoot retribution revenge fire Think about the fool who by his virtue can be found in a most unusual situation playing jester to the clown. Gordon Lightfoot fool virtue thinking Whitecaps in profusion all around me, but somehow in your eyes I found the strength to sail upon that raging sea. Gordon Lightfoot eye sea friendship 'If You Could Read My Mind' was written during the collapse of my marriage. It's a great song. No one has any gripes about it. I wondered what my wife and daughter might think. My daughter is the one who got me to correct 'The feelings that you lacked' to 'The feelings that we lacked'. Gordon Lightfoot daughter song thinking I never got really good at hockey. Gordon Lightfoot hockey She been looking like a queen in a sailor's dream. Gordon Lightfoot queens sailor dream The house you live in will never fall down, if you pity the stranger who stands at your door. Gordon Lightfoot house doors fall I love jazz. I still do. Dave Brubeck and Stan Getz are so good. I took a notification course in Jazz Orchestration. It wasn't a grandiose as you'd think but I did have to to go to Los Angeles to do it and get an understanding of the keyboard because the keyboard became my tool and I used it a lot in transposing and composing. All the flats and time values. I spent a year doing that because in those days you had to be able to write your own music and read sheets. Gordon Lightfoot writing years thinking Sometimes a broken dream will make you sad or make you mean. Sometimes things ain't bad as they seem. Gordon Lightfoot sadness dream mean Some years later I met Queen Elizabeth II, in our capital Ottawa at a Canada Day celebration. David Foster and I were doing the show and we both met her afterwards. She told me how much she loved the Canadian Railroad Trilogy. She looked at me and said, "oh, that song", and then said again, "that song", and that was all she said. Gordon Lightfoot queens song years Both the Beatles and The Rolling Stones broke on the music scene the summer I was in England. I can vividly remember hearing She Loves You in August 1963. Gordon Lightfoot august summer love-you I was happy to be in England, because my mother had always loved the royals, and so do I. Gordon Lightfoot royal england mother
