'If You Could Read My Mind' is a different experience every time I sing it. It's just that kind of a song. — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
I was a drummer in the bugle band in cadets. I marched. It's probably quite funny to look back on it. — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
There is always something wrong with a song, you can't be perfect. — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
My parents got my sister and I to go to church and have piano lessons. We were keen and they could see… — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
I once performed The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald to about 15 sea captains. The song was about a ship that broke… — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
I started writing songs in high school, so you had to write this stuff out and register it with the Library of… — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
Both the Beatles and The Rolling Stones broke on the music scene the summer I was in England. I can vividly remember… — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
Don Quixote was a song for a 1969 Michael Douglas movie called Hail Hero! I wrote the title song for the film… — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
I took the song The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face from a folk singer called Bonnie Dobson. I knew her… — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
A lot of people influenced me as I was learning, but probably Bing Crosby was the most influential because I would hear… — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
There was a TV show called Thank Your Lucky Stars, with the catchphrase "I'll give it five!" The Beatles and Stones were… — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
'If You Could Read My Mind' was written during the collapse of my marriage. It's a great song. No one has any… — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
Some years later I met Queen Elizabeth II, in our capital Ottawa at a Canada Day celebration. David Foster and I were… — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
My first song was Hula Hoop Song, in 1955. It was a novelty song. I had to find someway to reach out… — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
I got to sing solo in the junior choir when I was 10 or 11 and won a competition, and my sister's… — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
I went on tours with [Bob] Dylan - the big one was in 1975 and called Roaring Thunder Review. I knew him… — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
I try to write songs. At our concerts, we take the cream of the crop from my back catalogue and I don't… — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
I love jazz. I still do. Dave Brubeck and Stan Getz are so good. I took a notification course in Jazz Orchestration.… — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
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… — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share
I was a drummer in the bugle band in cadets. I marched. It's probably quite funny to look back on it. — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share
I wrote one called 'The No Hotel.' I got inspired in 1989 while I was on a trip down to Brazil, and I didn't… — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share
I never believed - or knew for sure - if I would be able to make a professional life in music. But it turned… — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share
I try to keep it light and positive most of the time, whereas earlier on I didn't always do that. — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share
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… — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share
Sometimes a broken dream will make you sad or make you mean. Sometimes things ain't bad as they seem. — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share
If there's a reason for the way that life is I'd like to find it. After all, who's life is it? — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share
I was happy to be in England, because my mother had always loved the royals, and so do I. — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share
It was very interesting time to be in England. Even at that point [John] Lennon and [Paul] McCartney influenced my writing. I thought, "maybe… — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share
The giant neon spinning discs are a reminder of the huge role that Sam Sniderman and his store played in the cultural life of… — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share
![“I went on tours with [Bob] Dylan - the big one was in 1975 and called Roaring Thunder Review. I knew him well because I met him around the time he did his second album, in 1963. He recorded one of my songs called Shadows. In the 1970s, it was suggested that we do a duet, because we had the same…” quote by Gordon Lightfoot](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/324/gordon-lightfoot-7499_albums_i-went-on-tours-with-bob-dylan-the-big-o_2155274.jpg)
