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 More Quotes by Gordon Lightfoot More Quotes From Gordon Lightfoot 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 writing song trying Silent waters rocking on the morning of our birth, Gordon Lightfoot mother morning children Words are for explaining the mistakes we might have made, names are for calling when there is nothing left to say. Gordon Lightfoot names mistake relationship When I was 16, I used to drive huge loads of laundry in a three ton truck. I would turn round at night to drive back and see the band in a place north of Toronto called Dunn's Pavilion. I would drive that truck all day and they drive back and all the way until one day I wrecked the truck. I fell asleep and wrecked it. I was OK and so was my helper. I called my dad and the first words out of his mouth were, "are you OK?" I was really lucky I had a kind father. Gordon Lightfoot dad night father 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 summer jobs years 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". Gordon Lightfoot writing two interesting 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 piano church parent I got to sing solo in the junior choir when I was 10 or 11 and won a competition, and my sister's piano playing improved to a certain level. One time my sister and I worked together. The first song we ever sang in High School was Rags to Riches by Tony Bennett. Gordon Lightfoot piano song school A lot of people influenced me as I was learning but probably Bing Crosby was the most influential, because I would hear his Christmas albums, which my parents played a lot. Gordon Lightfoot albums parent people The road to love is littered by the bones of other ones, who by the magic of the moment were mysteriously undone. Gordon Lightfoot bones magic love You just get the vibes of your surroundings and it rubs off on you. Gordon Lightfoot vibes surroundings She is my flower and she blooms for the one who loves her best. Gordon Lightfoot flower romantic Don Quixote was a song for a 1969 Michael Douglas movie called Hail Hero! I wrote the title song for the film and they also used the Don Quixote one I had submitted. Gordon Lightfoot titles hero song Be calm in the face of all common disgraces. Gordon Lightfoot calm faces common Of course I knew The Band's Canadian keyboard player, the late Richard Manuel, but I didn't play that night because I was there as a guest with my record executives. People ask, "why didn't you play?" If I had known I was going to be playing then I would have been prepared for it. Gordon Lightfoot player night people The giant neon spinning discs are a reminder of the huge role that Sam Sniderman and his store played in the cultural life of Toronto and I believe they should be preserved and remounted in the interests of our city's heritage. Gordon Lightfoot giants cities believe The strength of his will was the tool of his trade. Gordon Lightfoot trade tools work 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 guy study bird I can remember sitting in a cabin outside of Denver writing that with a can of soup on the stove. Gordon Lightfoot denver cabins writing 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 four two children
