Quotes from Gordon Lightfoot

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

I did a lot of canoe tripping earlier on. I was on 10 trips, and I would get the feel of the forest and the wilderness, you know, that I always knew was in my soul to begin with.

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