Quotes by Gordon Lightfoot

Gordon Lightfoot

‘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’.

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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.

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

Mother Daughter

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Be calm in the face of all common disgraces.

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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.

August

Love You

Summer

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

Doe

God Love

Unanswered Questions

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.

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Everything is trust, all the rest is dust.

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Getting lost in her loving is your first mistake.

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

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Quotes by Gordon Lightfoot

Gordon Lightfoot

‘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’.

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.

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

Be calm in the face of all common disgraces.

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.

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

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.

Everything is trust, all the rest is dust.

Getting lost in her loving is your first mistake.

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

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