Gordon Lightfoot

Every time you wanted to do something, you'd hope it would score. You'd keep trying and trying, and all of the sudden,…

— Gordon Lightfoot

A lot of people influenced me as I was learning, but probably Bing Crosby was the most influential because I would hear…

— Gordon Lightfoot

All that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters.

— Gordon Lightfoot

Give me a wave I can ride upon, come and show your strength to me.

— Gordon Lightfoot

Whitecaps in profusion all around me, but somehow in your eyes I found the strength to sail upon that raging sea.

— Gordon Lightfoot

I started writing songs in high school. And eventually, I got some songs recorded by some major artists, mostly because I was…

— Gordon Lightfoot

Be calm in the face of all common disgraces.

— Gordon Lightfoot

I don't know where we went wrong, but the feeling's gone and I just can't get it back.

— Gordon Lightfoot

Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?

— Gordon Lightfoot

You hear about people who write 15 to 20 novels. How do they do it? You just gotta do it.

— Gordon Lightfoot

Rainy day people all know there's no sorrow they can't rise above.

— Gordon Lightfoot

My daughter Meredith Moon from my second wife has a band that does Appalachian music, with five-strong banjo, clawhammer style. I may…

— Gordon Lightfoot

Let our hearts touch far horizons. Let our love know no borders, Draw the Circles wide until, No one stands alone.

— Gordon Lightfoot

I remember when I first rocked in it was a great big dance hall and Tommy Young was blowing trombone and Louis…

— Gordon Lightfoot

It seems so lucky to just to have the right of telling you with all my might, you're beautiful tonight.

— Gordon Lightfoot

I did a lot of canoe tripping earlier on. I was on 10 trips, and I would get the feel of the…

— Gordon Lightfoot

“To all good men of reason, may they never thirst. (From "Heaven Help The Devil").”

— Gordon Lightfoot

What has changed for me is that I now have a huge family [Lightfoot has four children, from his first two marriages]…

— Gordon Lightfoot

To wear the crown of peace, you must wear the crown of thorns.

— Gordon Lightfoot

'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

The road to love is littered by the bones of other ones, who by the magic of the moment were mysteriously undone.

— Gordon Lightfoot

I have to play everything just perfectly. I can't take less of myself. I'm strong. I'm prepared.

— Gordon Lightfoot

My first song was Hula Hoop Song, in 1955. It was a novelty song. I had to find someway to reach out…

— Gordon Lightfoot

I had lots of friends who were fighting in Vietnam and I am still friends with veterans of the war.

— Gordon Lightfoot

I've just been a very lucky person. I'm 76 years of age, you know. I've been very lucky.

— Gordon Lightfoot