Gordon Lightfoot Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• It was very interesting time to be in England. Even at that point [John] Lennon and [Paul] McCartney influenced my writing. I thought, "maybe there is a huck or two in here I haven't thought of".

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Writing, Two, Interesting

• 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

• I can remember sitting in a cabin outside of Denver writing that with a can of soup on the stove.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Writing, Cabins, Denver

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

• I love jazz. I still do. Dave Brubeck and Stan Getz are so good. I took a notification course in Jazz Orchestration. It wasn't a grandiose as you'd think but I did have to to go to Los Angeles to do it and get an understanding of the keyboard because the keyboard became my tool and I used it a lot in transposing and composing. All the flats and time values. I spent a year doing that because in those days you had to be able to write your own music and read sheets.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Writing, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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