110 Quotes by Gordon Lightfoot

Of course I knew The Band's Canadian keyboard player, the late Richard Manuel, but I didn't play that night because I was there as a guest with my record executives. People ask, "why didn't you play?" If I had known I was going to be playing then I would have been prepared for it.

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

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

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

I never got really good at hockey.

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

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

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

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.