Canadian - Musician | November 17, 1938 -
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.
Gordon Lightfoot
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I've just been a very lucky person. I'm 76 years of age, you know. I've been very lucky.
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I was happy to be in England because my mother had always loved the royals, and so do I. My mother had every memento you could find on the Queen.
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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.
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'If You Could Read My Mind' is a different experience every time I sing it. It's just that kind of a song.
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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 don't think they should regulate the music field. I don't see how they can regulate the arts.
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I just do the cream-of-the-crop songs in my show. We just bowl them over; they love us. It just keeps getting better.
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I started writing songs in high school. And eventually, I got some songs recorded by some major artists, mostly because I was out there performing, and I was working in coffee houses and lounges, and people came to see me and hear my material.
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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.
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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 finish it until eight years later.
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