Dan Fogelberg Quotes & Sayings

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

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#2. I love Don Williams records, and old Ralph Stanley and Bill Monroe.

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

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

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

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

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#7. 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.

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#8. 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.

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#9. Love is the promise that guides me.

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#10. 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.

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#11. 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?

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#12. It seems like bluegrass people have more great stories to tell than other musicians.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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#22. I've always got about four albums in my head.

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

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#24. 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!

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#25. 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.

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#26. 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.

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

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#28. 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

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

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

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

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

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#33. Why must I be lonely in love?

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

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#35. 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.

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#36. 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.

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

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

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

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

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#41. 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.

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

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

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

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#45. I wish I was a little more gregarious and outgoing.

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

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

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#48. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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#54. 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.

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

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

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

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#58. 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.

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

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#60. The dogs, and home, privacy is my constant.

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#61. 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.

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

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

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

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

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#66. 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.

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#67. I always try to give my songs as gifts.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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#77. Now is the only thing that exists.

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#78. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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#85. 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.

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#86. 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

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