[Lcjones]

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A few quotes about GL.

...and mine first .....

"The music of Gordon is timeless. His music is simple and easy to listen to. His lyrics? Mind-probing but fun. Lightfoot is the quintessential melodic & lyrical poet." - LCJones

“Gordon Lightfoot, everytime I hear a song of his, it's like I wish it would last forever. " - Bob Dylan

"I don't think anybody before or since has had the impact on Canadian culture, through popular music or folk music, that Gordon Lightfoot has had." - Ian Tyson

"I've always been trying to write songs like Lightfoot. A song of mine like 'Come Monday' is a direct result of me trying to write a Gordon Lightfoot song." - Jimmy Buffett

"Canadian Railroad Trilogy is an extremely fine piece of songwriting. " - Johnny Cash

"Gordon Lightfoot looms pretty large in my life as a writer and an artist in general. I never travel anywhere without at least two of his records with me." - Ron Sexsmith

"Lightfoot's voice is such a part of the fabric of Canada, I know it almost as well as I know my own voice." - David Foster

"I always knew Gordon Lightfoot was a really great songwriter, but his stuff even sounds better and better all the time. It's just so really good to me. It's just like that's what should be in a dictionary, you know, next to a really good contempory folk song, is a Gordon Lightfoot song." - John Prine

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LC