Dan Fogelberg Quotes

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

Great, Tell, Musicians

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

Give, Try, Songs

I choose to express myself.
Dan Fogelberg

Choose, Express

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

Love, Laugh, Language

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

Love, Rock, Songwriter

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

Down, Idiots, Head

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

College, Worth, Painting

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

Music, Rock, Done

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

Love, Home, End

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

Love, Guitar, Acoustic

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

Music, Business, May

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

Everybody, Decided, Satisfy

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

Wanted, Pay, Musical

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

Blessed, Gift, Ends

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

Wish, Outgoing, Gregarious

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

Fun, Simple, American

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

Enough, Call, Guess

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

Music, Dad, Electric

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

Guitar, Old, Gave

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

Life, Artist, Consider

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

Music, Real, Written

Now is the only thing that exists.
Dan Fogelberg

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

Quite, Favorite, Electric

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

Successful, Writing, Person

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: August 13, 1951

Died: December 16, 2007

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