Gordon Lightfoot Quotes About Songs

Quotes about: Songs

• I got to sing solo in the junior choir when I was 10 or 11 and won a competition, and my sister's piano playing improved to a certain level. One time my sister and I worked together. The first song we ever sang in High School was Rags to Riches by Tony Bennett.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Song, School, Piano

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

• I went on tours with [Bob] Dylan - the big one was in 1975 and called Roaring Thunder Review. I knew him well because I met him around the time he did his second album, in 1963. He recorded one of my songs called Shadows. In the 1970s, it was suggested that we do a duet, because we had the same manager, Albert Grossman, who also managed Odetta and Peter, Paul and Mary. Dylan and I respected what each other did, but I just decided not to do it.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Song, Shadow, Roaring

• My first song was Hula Hoop Song, in 1955. It was a novelty song. I had to find someway to reach out and it was with a novelty song. Now, all of my recording obligations have been taken care of. I made 14 albums for Warner Brothers. Five for United Artist before that.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Song, Brother, Taken

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

• There is always something wrong with a song, you can't be perfect.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Song, Perfect

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

• I try to write songs. At our concerts, we take the cream of the crop from my back catalogue and I don't know if I could write something now that would replace any of that. We don't lose any of the standards. We have lots of songs in rotation.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Song, Writing, Trying

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

• 'If You Could Read My Mind' was written during the collapse of my marriage. It's a great song. No one has any gripes about it. I wondered what my wife and daughter might think. My daughter is the one who got me to correct 'The feelings that you lacked' to 'The feelings that we lacked'.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Daughter, Song, Thinking

• I once performed The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald to about 15 sea captains. The song was about a ship that broke in half and sank.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Song, Sea, Half

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

• Some years later I met Queen Elizabeth II, in our capital Ottawa at a Canada Day celebration. David Foster and I were doing the show and we both met her afterwards. She told me how much she loved the Canadian Railroad Trilogy. She looked at me and said, "oh, that song", and then said again, "that song", and that was all she said.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Song, Queens, Years

• 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.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Song, Hero, Titles

• I took the song The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face from a folk singer called Bonnie Dobson. I knew her and she had a record with that track on it.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Song, Track, Records

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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