Top 105 Quotes & Sayings by Dan Fogelberg

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Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Daniel Grayling Fogelberg was an American musician, songwriter, composer, and multi-instrumentalist. He is known for his 1980s songs, including "Longer" (1979), "Same Old Lang Syne" (1980), and "Leader of the Band" (1979). Fogelberg recorded “Leader” as a tribute to his father for his 1979 album Phoenix, but felt it was too sentimental for the album and didn't release it until 1981 on The Innocent Age.

American - Musician | August 13, 1951 - December 16, 2007

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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Now is the only thing that exists.

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

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I always try to give my songs as gifts.

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I wish I was a little more gregarious and outgoing.

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

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

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

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

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

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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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I choose to express myself.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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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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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.

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

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

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

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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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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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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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I wish I was a little more gregarious and outgoing

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

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

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

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Love is the promise that guides me.

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