Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Gordon Downie

There seemed to be a sense about Sarah [Harmer] even back then.She was obviously a quick study. I remember going to the Harmer farmhouse and sitting around the pool, and Sarah had a guitar. Maybe I knew four chords, but she already knew five. After doing 600 gigs that week, I would sing with her in a ragged voice, and she had the voice of a bird.

Maybe we're born lost, born to persevere

Well I ain't no movie star but I can get behind anything!

We live to survive our paradoxes.

If Jesus was hung, would we pray to a rope?

I sensed she [Sarah Harmer] had this look on her face like, 'Jesus, if you can do it, I certainly can.' But I had nothing to teach her, let's put it that way.