Dan fogelberg quotes

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

Love is the promise that guides me.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Are you under the power of gold?

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

The dogs, and home, privacy is my constant.

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

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.

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

I always try to give my songs as gifts.

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

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

Why must I be lonely in love?

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

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.

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

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

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

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 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 love home. I'll stay up there for days on end, I won't even go down the driveway to look for the mail.

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

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

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

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

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.

Now is the only thing that exists.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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!

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I wish I was a little more gregarious and outgoing

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

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

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

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

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

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

I choose to express myself.

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

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

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

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