Dan Fogelberg Quotes

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

Why must I be lonely in love?

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

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

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

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

I choose to express myself.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I always try to give my songs as gifts.

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

There is no darkness in this place that we're bound Love is the only thing that matters

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

The dogs, and home, privacy is my constant.

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