Best 71 quotes of Dan Fogelberg on MyQuotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I wish I was a little more gregarious and outgoing

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?

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

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.

Love is the promise that guides me.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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