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
I've outlasted just about everybody at Warner Brothers, ... one more off the new record.
Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
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.
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.
There is always something wrong with a song, you can't be perfect.
She been looking like a queen in a sailor's dream.
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.
Whitecaps in profusion all around me, but somehow in your eyes I found the strength to sail upon that raging sea.
You just get the vibes of your surroundings and it rubs off on you.
She is my flower and she blooms for the one who loves her best.
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.