Gordon Lightfoot citáty

Gordon Meredith Lightfoot Jr. je kanadský písničkář a skladatel. Jeho písně natočily desítky hvězd, jako například Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash či Marty Robbins. Za jeho největší hity jsou považovány písně If you could read my mind, Carefree highway, Rainy day people, Early morning rain a The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Má hvězdu na Kanadském chodníku slávy. Wikipedia  

✵ 17. listopad 1938
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„Od té spousty žen, co jsem v životě potkal, jsem se naučil hodně věcí. Jedna z nich je – nikdy nepiš šovinistické písně. A že jsem jich na začátku pár napsal, …“

Originál: (en) I learned a lot of things from the many women I met. One of the things was, don’t write songs that are chauvinistic. And boy, I wrote a couple at the start, …
Zdroj: [Hilfman Millson, Karen, Interview with Gordon Lightfoot, The United Church Observer, http://www.ucobserver.org/features/2013/06/interview_gordon_lightfoot/, 2013-10-28, anglicky]

Gordon Lightfoot: Citáty anglicky

“If I could only have you near
To breathe a sigh or two
I would be happy just to hold the hands I love
On this winters night with you”

Song For A Winter's Night, Track 10, United Artists A hauntingly beautiful version http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbgfXp5M02M
The Way I Feel (1967)

“You can't jump a jet plane
Like you can a freight train
So I'll best be on my way
In the early morning rain”

Early Morning Rain, Track 7, UAS-6487 The Song That Changed Everything http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFJ5Bj_put0
Lightfoot! (1966)
Kontext: The liquor tasted good and here the women all were fast...
You can't jump a jet plane
Like you can a freight train
So I'll best be on my way
In the early morning rain

“Oh! The song of the future has been sung
All the battles have been won
On the mountain tops we stand
All the world at our command
We have opened up the soil with our teardrops and our toil”

Canadian Railroad Trilogy, Track 11, United Artists Watch it Here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjoU1Qkeizs
The Way I Feel (1967)
Kontext: There was a time in this fair land when the railroad did not run
And the wild majestic mountains stood alone against the sun
Long before the white man and long before the wheel
When the green dark forest was too silent to be real...
Oh! The song of the future has been sung
All the battles have been won
On the mountain tops we stand
All the world at our command
We have opened up the soil with our teardrops and our toil

“And the body of a dead youth
Lies stretched upon the ground
Upon the filthy pavements
No reason can be found
Black day in July”

Black Day In July, Track 3, (mono 45 edit), UNITED ARTISTS 50281, March 1968
Did She Mention My Name? (1968)

“Hail hero, hail hero, child of the sun
All covered with flowers still having your fun”

Theme song of Hail, Hero! (1969), co-written with Jerome Moross

“Hail hero, hail hero, let me see you smile
You been gone for so damn long, I wish you'd stay awhile”

Theme song of Hail Hero! (1969), co-written with Jerome Moross

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