Dan Fogelberg Quotes

MTV didn't call. I guess I wasn't hip and groovy enough.

I'm not the quiet sensitive little guy I was. I can't be. There's just too much after me.

My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it.

I fell in love with Nashville. I got lots of work.

You've got to just follow your heart and do your best work. For better or worse, I have followed my heart. There is no doubt in my mind or heart that everything I've done is exactly what I intended to do.

Around the time the Beatles were on Ed Sullivan, I was already in a band.

Longer is not my best song, it's just a classic love song, and every songwriter always dreams of writing a classic love song.

People who listen to my records expect the ballads from me. The rock 'n roll is on there because it's another mode of expression.

I believe in God, but not in any rational or theological scope.

Life isn't all that sad. I'm a happy person.

I've succeeded beyond what I ever thought I could.

As we hang beneath the heavens, and we hover over hell, our hearts become the instruments we learn to play so well.

I love the subtlety and tonal range of the acoustic guitar.

She said she married an architect, who kept her warm and safe and dry. She would like to say she loved the man, but she didn't like to lie.

I had never done TV. I think it's a foolish medium for, most rock 'n roll music. Nobody ever comes off well on TV.

I feel it right down in my stomach when I'm in touch with something. I don't know what it is.

I'm not 20 years old any more. I'm not gonna go out on quite the limb I did.

Phoenix was a tougher record, a little more commercially accessible record.

Waiting for wisdom to open the cage, we forged in the fires of the innocent age.

The people who come to me are the people who are meant to come to me.

It was so much fun playing simple American bluegrass. I got to meet Doc Watson.

Love like a phantoms lights but hold in the heart, it builds like the empty smile adorning a statue with sightless eyes.

I love Don Williams records, and old Ralph Stanley and Bill Monroe.

Now is the only thing that exists.

For those two years in college I was constantly singing and writing and playing in coffee houses and stuff.

I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.

I've been writing a lot of country music again. I've written some bluegrass material. I'm having a good time doing that.

The meanings get lost and the teachings get tossed and you don't know what you're going to do next.

I had gone full-on folkie; I'd had it with bands.

Be On Your Way is one of the favorite songs I've ever written. What a terribly sad song, but what a beautiful melody.

I do what I believe in. I do good work, and the people who appreciate it, fine, and those who don't, fine, that's good.

My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way.

I may quit the music business someday, but never the music.

I wish I had more time to sit down and be a little bit more normal.

There's laws that we must live by, and they're not the laws of man.

When you are not near me, I make the sound of one hand clapping.

Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.

Balance the cost of the soul you lost with the dreams you lightly sold.

I choose to express myself.

My life is as an artist, not an entertainer. I don't consider myself an entertainer, but I can do that thing when I want to.

My upbringing made me think that real legitimate music is written, not heard.

I was blessed with a gift. It's a gift and a curse. It never ends.

My life has been a poor attempt to imitate the man, I'm just a living legacy to the leader of the band.

I'm a child of the woods. I have that sort of sensibility.

I always try to give my songs as gifts.

You think you're winning, but it's hard to say sometimes.

I hate the road so much. I almost go into a cocoon with my own people out there.

I put everything I can into a record. That's what art is for. I take a risk every time I do one with my whole being.

Storybook endings never appear. They're just 'someone's' way of leading us here.

Death is there to keep us honest and constantly remind us we are free.

Too many hearts have been broken, failing to trust what they feel.

Are you under the power of gold?

You're successful if you can get one person to pick it up and put it on the turntable and go, Wow, thanks for writing that!

I kinda threw the spotlight away from me for a little while.

I have a very sedate life. How often do you see me at a bar in Boulder? I like Boulder. We just don't live that way.

How many more idols must you find before you realize that you are the one you have been searching for?

Strats are my favorite electric guitars, and I've got quite a collection.

There is no darkness in this place that we're bound
Love is the only thing that matters

It's the chance of a lifetime in a lifetime of chance, and it's high time you joined in the dance.

Lessons learned are like bridges burned you only need to cross them but once. Is the knowledge gained worth the price of the pain, are the spoils worth the cost of the hunt?

I love to laugh, it's my main thing. I love to abuse the English language.

Tennessee helps me open up. I'm much more vulnerable there, more willing to talk about anything.

Trust isn't something that's spoken and love's never wrong when it's real.

I went to college as a theater major. But after about three weeks of that, I changed to the school of fine arts as a painter.

The dogs, and home, privacy is my constant.

Mystery's a thing not easily captured, and once deceased, not easily exhumed.

Love when you can, cry when you have to, be who you must, that's a part of the plan. Await your arrival with simple survival, and one day we'll all understand.

There's a heaven on earth that so few ever find, though the map's in your soul and the road's in your mind

Between the worlds of men and make believe I can be found.

One road was simple acceptance of life, the other road offered sweet peace. When I made my decision, my vision became my release.

I love home. I'll stay up there for days on end, I won't even go down the driveway to look for the mail.