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
Think about the fool who by his virtue can be found in a most unusual situation playing jester to the clown.
Sometimes a broken dream will make you sad or make you mean. Sometimes things ain't bad as they seem.
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.
Be calm in the face of all common disgraces.
If you plan to face tomorrow, do it soon.
The road to love is littered by the bones of other ones, who by the magic of the moment were mysteriously undone.
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.
The strength of his will was the tool of his trade.
I'm not really a bird person or an Audubon guy who studies them, but as I was around them, they interested me.
She is my flower and she blooms for the one who loves her best.
You just get the vibes of your surroundings and it rubs off on you.
I was a drummer in the bugle band in cadets. I marched. It's probably quite funny to look back on it.
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.
Whitecaps in profusion all around me, but somehow in your eyes I found the strength to sail upon that raging sea.