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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Are you under the power of gold?

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Now is the only thing that exists.

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

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