Gordon Lightfoot Quotes

Think about the fool who by his virtue can be found in a most unusual situation playing jester to the clown.

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

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

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

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

I'm a little nuts. I'm a lot nuts. All I know is that in the midst of the madness of this world it's my therapy. The music touches my heartstrings.

If you plan to face tomorrow, do it soon.

If I could read your mind, what a tale your thoughts could tell. Just like a paperback novel, the kind that drugstores sell.

You will go with me everywhere. When I'm dreaming, you still share my lonely nights.

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

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

Those who put their faith in fire, in fire their faith shall be repaid.

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

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

I never got really good at hockey.

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

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.

The house you live in will never fall down, if you pity the stranger who stands at your door.

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

It was very interesting time to be in England. Even at that point [John] Lennon and [Paul] McCartney influenced my writing. I thought, "maybe there is a huck or two in here I haven't thought of".

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

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

Don Quixote was a song for a 1969 Michael Douglas movie called Hail Hero! I wrote the title song for the film and they also used the Don Quixote one I had submitted.

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

I'm not really a bird person or an Audubon guy who studies them, but as I was around them, they interested me.

The strength of his will was the tool of his trade.

I never really had stage nerves but I did have had trouble getting up to the right energy level. For a long time I drank. I drank up until 1982 and then I gave up alcohol.

Be calm in the face of all common disgraces.

My parents got my sister and I to go to church and have piano lessons. We were keen and they could see that.

I would never have ever dreamed that I would get married again and then all of a sudden you meet somebody. That's the thing about life. It can be so unexpected.

A lot of people influenced me as I was learning but probably Bing Crosby was the most influential, because I would hear his Christmas albums, which my parents played a lot.

Sometimes I think it's a shame, when I get feeling better when I'm feeling no pain.

Everything is trust, all the rest is dust.

Words are for explaining the mistakes we might have made, names are for calling when there is nothing left to say.

I play piano, but not well enough to play professionally.

I can remember sitting in a cabin outside of Denver writing that with a can of soup on the stove.

See the judge upon the bench who tries the case as best he can, see the wise and wicked ones who feed upon life's sacred fire, see the soldier with his gun who must be dead to be admired.

I can see her lying back in her faded dress in a room where do what you don't confess.

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

Getting lost in her loving is your first mistake.

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

I once performed The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald to about 15 sea captains. The song was about a ship that broke in half and sank.

I liked the American folk style of Woody Guthrie.

Silent waters rocking on the morning of our birth, like an empty cradle waiting to be filled. And from the heart of God the Spirit moved upon the earth, like a mother breathing life into her child.

Both the Beatles and The Rolling Stones broke on the music scene the summer I was in England. I can vividly remember hearing She Loves You in August 1963.

When love is true there is no truer occupation.

What has changed for me is that I now have a huge family [Lightfoot has four children, from his first two marriages] - the result of my living.

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

I took the song The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face from a folk singer called Bonnie Dobson. I knew her and she had a record with that track on it.

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