Daydreaming Quote by Gordon Lightfoot

“Will you gather daydreams or will you gather wealth? How can you find your fortune when you cannot find yourself?”

Gordon Lightfoot

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

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

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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…

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

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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…

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

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

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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…

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

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

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If there's a reason for the way that life is I'd like to find it. After all, who's life is it?

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

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