Dan Fogelberg Quotes (28 Quotes)

In our first 14 months of treatment, we have succeeded in slowing the progression of my prostate cancer down to an almost negligible level, ... (My wife) Jean and I are thrilled and incredibly relieved and finally feel like we can at last take a breath.

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

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

I wish I was a little more gregarious and outgoing.

Now is the only thing that exists.

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

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

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

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

not only misrepresent(ed) the extent of my illness but also the treatment involved.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I choose to express myself.

I always try to give my songs as gifts.

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

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

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

While we understand that what were dealing with is a long term condition that will have to be dealt with, monitored and treated for probably the rest of my life, we are terribly encouraged to have come so far, so fast, ... It has certainly been the most trying experience of our lives and yet has proven to be one of the most illuminating as well.