Quotes from 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, something would come right out of left field, like 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.' No one had any idea about that one.

Got a whiskey cured guitar and no place is too far

Nobody had any idea that 'If You Could Read My Mind' would become a hit single.

Turning back the pages of my sweet shattered dream, I wonder if she'll ever do the same; And the thing that I call living is just being satisfied With knowing I've got no one left to blame.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.