Dan Fogelberg Quotes

I wish I was a little more gregarious and outgoing

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!

Love is the promise that guides me.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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?

Now is the only thing that exists.

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

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

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

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

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