Dan Fogelberg Quotes

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

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

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

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

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 outlet for my sorrow, that I do feel deeply, and the pain, is the songs. That's where it goes.

If someone criticizes my child it's gonna hurt me a little bit, but it's my child, you know, and I love it regardless.

The dogs, and home, privacy is my constant.

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

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

It's only an interim trip. I love the music, but it's really giving me a way in which I can comfortably explore my art.

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

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

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

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

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

He earned his love through discipline, a thundering velvet hand, his gentle means of sculpting souls took me years to understand.

I always try to give my songs as gifts.

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!

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?

It's a very important issue to me, trying to wake people up to the fact that we'd better take better care of our planet.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Down the ancient corridors through the gates of time, run the ghosts of dreams that we have left behind.

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.

Through the years as the fire starts to mellow, burning lines in the book of our lives. Though the binding cracks and the pages start to yellow, I'll be in love with you.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

I wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies.

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.

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

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

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

It seems like bluegrass people have more great stories to tell than other musicians

Getting the best response from people is how I base my success.