Gordon Lightfoot
Gordon Lightfoot
Gordon Meredith Lightfoot, Jr. CC OOntis a Canadian singer-songwriter who achieved international success in folk, folk-rock, and country music, and has been credited for helping define the folk-pop sound of the 1960s and 1970s. He has been referred to as Canada's greatest songwriter and internationally as a folk-rock legend...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth17 November 1938
CityOrillia, Canada
CountryCanada
She is my flower and she blooms for the one who loves her best.
The road to love is littered by the bones of other ones, who by the magic of the moment were mysteriously undone.
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.
The strength of his will was the tool of his trade.
Sometimes a broken dream will make you sad or make you mean. Sometimes things ain't bad as they seem.
Be calm in the face of all common disgraces.
If you plan to face tomorrow, do it soon.
Give me a wave I can ride upon, come and show your strength to me.
I don't know where we went wrong, but the feeling's gone and I just can't get it back.
I play piano, but not well enough to play professionally.
Words are for explaining the mistakes we might have made, names are for calling when there is nothing left to say.
I can see her lying back in her faded dress in a room where do what you don't confess.
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.
See the judge upon the bench who tries the case as best he can, see the wise and wicked ones who feed upon life's sacred fire, see the soldier with his gun who must be dead to be admired.