Dan Fogelberg Quotes

A simple smile, a tender touch, speaks the true language of love.

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 don't really pay enough attention to what other people are doing.

Now is the only thing that exists.

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

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

I never going to satisfy everybody, so I decided to satisfy myself.

Wealthy the spirit that knows its own flight. Stealthy the hunter who slays his own fright. Blessed the traveler who journeys the length of the light

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

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

I'm affected by my environment. Los Angeles makes me defensive and wary.

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

It was quite a shot in the head to do the album and then have it shot down by nonmusical idiots

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

Love is the promise that guides me.

I wish I was a little more gregarious and outgoing

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

Why must I be lonely in love?

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

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

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

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

I choose to express myself.

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

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

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.

I've always got about four albums in my head.

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

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

In the time it takes us to look beyond the lies, we could be sailing in each other's eyes.

I was playing in bands before high school even. My first band I was in at 14. And we were playing just Beatles.

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

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

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

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

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

Longer than there've been fishes in the ocean, higher than any bird ever flew, longer than there've been stars up in the heavens, I've been in love with you.

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

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

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

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.

Are you under the power of gold?

If people are willing to buy it and listen to it and they like it and enjoy it, then it's viable.

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

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

We drank a toast to innocence, we drank a toast to now. And tried to reach beyond the emptiness, but neither one knew how.