Quotes By Dan Fogelberg

I always try to give my songs as gifts.

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

Now is the only thing that exists.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I choose to express myself.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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!

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

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 wish I was a little more gregarious and outgoing.