110 Quotes by Gordon Lightfoot

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

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

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

I know that we're being inexorably taken over by the Americans. Without a doubt. I don't mean invaded or anything like that, just taken over. By degrees.

I don't think they should regulate the music field. I don't see how they can regulate the arts.

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

I've outlasted just about everybody at Warner Brothers, ... one more off the new record.

I was in Britain that year [1963] and some music publishing people in Denmark Street in London suggested me to the BBC. So I found myself in front of a British television show, which was a nice surprise.