Gordon Lightfoot

I never believed - or knew for sure - if I would be able to make a professional life in music. But it turned out that way. ”

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. ”

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

I have just a really strong love for people when I perform. I really do. ”

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. ”

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. ”

If You Could Read My Mind' is a different experience every time I sing it. It's just that kind of a song. ”

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. ”

I was a drummer in the bugle band in cadets. I marched. It's probably quite funny to look back on it. ”