Dan Fogelberg Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

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

The people who come to me are the people who are meant to come to me. — Dan Fogelberg

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

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. — Dan Fogelberg

I may quit the music business someday, but never the music. — Dan Fogelberg

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? — Dan Fogelberg

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

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

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

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

I wish I was a little more gregarious and outgoing. — Dan Fogelberg

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

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. — Dan Fogelberg

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

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! — Dan Fogelberg

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

It seems like bluegrass people have more great stories to tell than other musicians. — Dan Fogelberg

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

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

I have a very sedate life. How often do you see me at a bar in Boulder? I like Boulder. We just don't live that way. — Dan Fogelberg

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

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

Love is the promise that guides me. — Dan Fogelberg

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

I choose to express myself. — Dan Fogelberg

I never going to satisfy everybody, so I decided to satisfy myself. — Dan Fogelberg

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

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. — Dan Fogelberg

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

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

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

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

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

Why must I be lonely in love? — Dan Fogelberg

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

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

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

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. — Dan Fogelberg

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. — Dan Fogelberg

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

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

I love the subtlety and tonal range of the acoustic guitar. — Dan Fogelberg

I love Don Williams records, and old Ralph Stanley and Bill Monroe. — Dan Fogelberg

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

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

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 — Dan Fogelberg

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

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

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. — Dan Fogelberg

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

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. — Dan Fogelberg

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

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. — Dan Fogelberg

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. — Dan Fogelberg

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

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

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 — Dan Fogelberg

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

Are you under the power of gold? — Dan Fogelberg

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

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

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

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

I always try to give my songs as gifts. — Dan Fogelberg

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

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

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

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. — Dan Fogelberg

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

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. — Dan Fogelberg

Now is the only thing that exists. — Dan Fogelberg

Phoenix was a tougher record, a little more commercially accessible record. — Dan Fogelberg

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. — Dan Fogelberg

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. — Dan Fogelberg

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

I fell in love with Nashville. I got lots of work. — Dan Fogelberg

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

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

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

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

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

The dogs, and home, privacy is my constant. — Dan Fogelberg

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. — Dan Fogelberg

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. — Dan Fogelberg

My upbringing made me think that real legitimate music is written, not heard. — Dan Fogelberg

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

I've succeeded beyond what I ever thought I could. — Dan Fogelberg