Dan Fogelberg
I was blessed with a gift. It's a gift and a curse. It never ends.
I may quit the music business someday, but never the music.
I never going to satisfy everybody, so I decided to satisfy myself.
I love the subtlety and tonal range of the acoustic guitar.
Now is the only thing that exists.
It was quite a shot in the head to do the album and then have it shot down by nonmusical idiots.
I always try to give my songs as gifts.
I wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies.
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.
I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.
It was so much fun playing simple American bluegrass. I got to meet Doc Watson.
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!
Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
MTV didn't call. I guess I wasn't hip and groovy enough.
Strats are my favorite electric guitars, and I've got quite a collection.
My upbringing made me think that real legitimate music is written, not heard.
My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it.
My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way.
It seems like bluegrass people have more great stories to tell than other musicians.
I wish I was a little more gregarious and outgoing.
I love to laugh, it's my main thing. I love to abuse the English language.
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.
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 had gone full-on folkie; I'd had it with bands.
I choose to express myself.
Love is the promise that guides me.Collection: Love
There's a heaven on earth that so few ever find, though the map's in your soul and the road's in your mindCollection: Heaven
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.Collection: Song
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 lightCollection: Blessed
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 toCollection: Artist
A simple smile, a tender touch, speaks the true language of love.Collection: Romantic
Between the worlds of men and make believe I can be found.Collection: Believe
Down the ancient corridors through the gates of time, run the ghosts of dreams that we have left behind.Collection: Running
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?Collection: Education
Death is there to keep us honest and constantly remind us we are free.Collection: Death
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.Collection: Heart
Mystery's a thing not easily captured, and once deceased, not easily exhumed.Collection: Philosophy
Trust isn't something that's spoken and love's never wrong when it's real.Collection: Real
You think you're winning, but it's hard to say sometimes.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Romantic
We drank a toast to innocence, we drank a toast to now. And tried to reach beyond the emptiness, but neither one knew how.Collection: Alcohol
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.Collection: Boulders
It seems like bluegrass people have more great stories to tell than other musiciansCollection: People
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.Collection: Stars
I was blessed with a gift. It's a gift and a curse. It never endsCollection: Blessed
The outlet for my sorrow, that I do feel deeply, and the pain, is the songs. That's where it goes.Collection: Song
The people who come to me are the people who are meant to come to me.Collection: People
It was quite a shot in the head to do the album and then have it shot down by nonmusical idiotsCollection: Albums
Why must I be lonely in love?Collection: Relationship
Getting the best response from people is how I base my success.Collection: People