Dan Fogelberg famous quotes

Love is the promise that guides me.
-- Dan Fogelberg

#Love #Promise #Guides

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
-- Dan Fogelberg

#Blessed #Journey #Light

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

#Writing #Successful #Wow

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

#Artist #Want #Life Is

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

#Thinking #Rocks #Done

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

#Rocks #Rock N Roll #Suits

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

#Romantic #Simple #Language

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

#Honest

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

#Love Is #Darkness #Matter

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

#Chance #Lifetime

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

#People #Musician #Stories

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

#Girl #Guitar #Dancing

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

#Real #Thinking #Made

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

#Dad #Guitar #Looks

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

#Love #Laughing #Abuse

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

#Heart #Eye #Light

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

#Family #Men #Leader

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

#Family #Mean #Hands

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

#Dream #Soul #Balance

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.
-- Dan Fogelberg

#Stars #Ocean #Love You

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.
-- Dan Fogelberg

#Romantic #Book #Love You

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

#Romantic #Lying #Eye

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

#Heart #Rock And Roll #Play

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

#Sweet #Philosophy #Acceptance

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

#Winning #Thinking #Expression

Now is the only thing that exists.
-- Dan Fogelberg

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

#Guitar #My Favorite #Electric

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

#Fire #Waiting #Age

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?
-- Dan Fogelberg

#Education #Pain #Bridges

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

#Running #Dream #Ghost

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

#Real #And Love #Adages

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

#Men #Law #Politics

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

#Alcohol #Drug #Innocence

Are you under the power of gold?
-- Dan Fogelberg

#Philosophy #Gold

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

#Philosophy #Mystery #Deceased

I may quit the music business someday, but never the music.
-- Dan Fogelberg

#May #Quitting #Someday

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

#Home #Looks #Mail

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

#Gone #Band

I always try to give my songs as gifts.
-- Dan Fogelberg

#Song #Giving #Trying

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

#Art #College #Degrees

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
-- Dan Fogelberg

#Heaven #Soul #Mind

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.
-- Dan Fogelberg

#Song #Simple #Survival

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

#Education #Teaching #Next

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.
-- Dan Fogelberg

#Honesty #Lying #Men

I choose to express myself.
-- Dan Fogelberg

I never going to satisfy everybody, so I decided to satisfy myself.
-- Dan Fogelberg

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

#Hands #Sound #Compliment

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

#Relationship #Heart #Broken

Why must I be lonely in love?
-- Dan Fogelberg

#Relationship #Lonely #Love Relationship

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

#Believe #Men #World

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

#Albums #Idiot #Shots

I wish I was a little more gregarious and outgoing
-- Dan Fogelberg

#Wish #Littles #Gregarious

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

#Blessed #Ends #Curse

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

#Mtv #Hips #Enough

I love the subtlety and tonal range of the acoustic guitar.
-- Dan Fogelberg

#Guitar #Acoustics #Range

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

#Hollies #Musical #Pay

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

#Fun #Simple #Bluegrass