Lots Friends Quotes by Gordon Lightfoot

You just get the vibes of your surroundings and it rubs off on you.

— Gordon Lightfoot

There is always something wrong with a song, you can't be perfect.

— Gordon Lightfoot

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

I was a drummer in the bugle band in cadets. I marched. It's probably quite funny to look back on it.

— Gordon Lightfoot

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

I never believed - or knew for sure - if I would be able to make a professional life in music. But it turned…

— Gordon Lightfoot

I try to keep it light and positive most of the time, whereas earlier on I didn't always do that.

— Gordon Lightfoot

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

Sometimes a broken dream will make you sad or make you mean. Sometimes things ain't bad as they seem.

— Gordon Lightfoot

She is my flower and she blooms for the one who loves her best.

— Gordon Lightfoot

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

I was happy to be in England, because my mother had always loved the royals, and so do I.

— Gordon Lightfoot

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

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

She been looking like a queen in a sailor's dream.

— Gordon Lightfoot