I don't know where we went wrong, but the feeling's gone and I just can't get it back.
Gordon LightfootIf I could read your mind, what a tale your thoughts could tell. Just like a paperback novel, the kind that drugstores sell.
Gordon LightfootWhat 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.
Gordon LightfootI can see her lying back in her faded dress in a room where do what you don't confess.
Gordon LightfootI was happy to be in England, because my mother had always loved the royals, and so do I.
Gordon LightfootI 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.
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