Dan Fogelberg Quotes
"It was quite a shot in the head to do the album and then have it shot down by nonmusical idiots."
- Dan Fogelberg
(Related: Idiots)
"It was so much fun playing simple American bluegrass. I got to meet Doc Watson."
- Dan Fogelberg
(Related: American, Fun)
"MTV didn't call. I guess I wasn't hip and groovy enough."
- 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
(Related: Dad, Music)
"My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it."
- Dan Fogelberg
(Related: Dancing, First, Girls, Guitar, Old, Trees)
"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
(Related: Life, Artist, Want)
"Now is the only thing that exists."
- Dan Fogelberg
(Related: Now)
"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
(Related: Successful, Writing)
"I was blessed with a gift. It's a gift and a curse. It never ends."
- Dan Fogelberg
"I wish I was a little more gregarious and outgoing."
- Dan Fogelberg
"My upbringing made me think that real legitimate music is written, not heard."
- Dan Fogelberg
(Related: Music)
"I always try to give my songs as gifts."
- Dan Fogelberg
(Related: Gifts, Songs)
"It seems like bluegrass people have more great stories to tell than other musicians."
- Dan Fogelberg
(Related: People, Musicians)
"I choose to express myself."
- Dan Fogelberg
"I had gone full-on folkie; I'd had it with bands."
- 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
(Related: Music)
"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
(Related: Love, Home, End, Mail)
"I love the subtlety and tonal range of the acoustic guitar."
- Dan Fogelberg
(Related: Love, Guitar)
"I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter."
- Dan Fogelberg
(Related: Love)
"I may quit the music business someday, but never the music."
- Dan Fogelberg
(Related: Business, Music, May)
"I never going to satisfy everybody, so I decided to satisfy myself."
- Dan Fogelberg
"Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more."
- Dan Fogelberg
(Related: College, Painting, Worth)
"I wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies."
- Dan Fogelberg
(Related: Tribute)
"I love to laugh, it's my main thing. I love to abuse the English language."
- Dan Fogelberg
(Related: Love, Abuse, English, Language)