Top 90 Dan Fogelberg Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “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

2. “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

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

— Dan Fogelberg

4. “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

5. “Now is the only thing that exists.”

— Dan Fogelberg

6. “It’s the chance of a lifetime in a lifetime of chance, and it’s high time you joined in the dance.”

— Dan Fogelberg

7. “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

8. “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

9. “He earned his love through discipline, a thundering velvet hand, his gentle means of sculpting souls took me years to understand.”

— Dan Fogelberg

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

— Dan Fogelberg

11. “As we hang beneath the heavens, and we hover over hell, our hearts become the instruments we learn to play so well.”

— Dan Fogelberg

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

— Dan Fogelberg

13. “Trust isn’t something that’s spoken and love’s never wrong when it’s real.”

— Dan Fogelberg

14. “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

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

— Dan Fogelberg

16. “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.”

— Dan Fogelberg

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

— Dan Fogelberg

18. “I love to laugh, it’s my main thing. I love to abuse the English language.”

— Dan Fogelberg

19. “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

20. “I wish I had more time to sit down and be a little bit more normal.”

— Dan Fogelberg

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

— Dan Fogelberg

22. “Are you under the power of gold?”

— Dan Fogelberg

23. “Getting the best response from people is how I base my success.”

— Dan Fogelberg

24. “Love is the promise that guides me.”

— Dan Fogelberg

25. “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.”

— Dan Fogelberg

26. “The outlet for my sorrow, that I do feel deeply, and the pain, is the songs. That’s where it goes.”

— Dan Fogelberg

27. “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

28. “Balance the cost of the soul you lost with the dreams you lightly sold.”

— Dan Fogelberg

29. “Longer is not my best song, it’s just a classic love song, and every songwriter always dreams of writing a classic love song.”

— Dan Fogelberg

30. “I may quit the music business someday, but never the music.”

— Dan Fogelberg

31. “The dogs, and home, privacy is my constant.”

— Dan Fogelberg

32. “Mystery’s a thing not easily captured, and once deceased, not easily exhumed.”

— Dan Fogelberg

33. “I believe in God, but not in any rational or theological scope.”

— Dan Fogelberg

34. “The meanings get lost and the teachings get tossed and you don’t know what you’re going to do next.”

— Dan Fogelberg

35. “I never going to satisfy everybody, so I decided to satisfy myself.”

— Dan Fogelberg

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

— Dan Fogelberg

37. “It’s a very important issue to me, trying to wake people up to the fact that we’d better take better care of our planet.”

— Dan Fogelberg

38. “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

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

— Dan Fogelberg

40. “I have a very sedate life. How often do you see me at a bar in Boulder? I like Boulder. We just don’t live that way.”

— Dan Fogelberg

41. “There’s laws that we must live by, and they’re not the laws of man.”

— Dan Fogelberg

42. “I always try to give my songs as gifts.”

— Dan Fogelberg

43. “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

44. “The people who come to me are the people who are meant to come to me.”

— Dan Fogelberg

45. “Around the time the Beatles were on Ed Sullivan, I was already in a band.”

— Dan Fogelberg

46. “I’ve always got about four albums in my head.”

— Dan Fogelberg

47. “I put everything I can into a record. That’s what art is for. I take a risk every time I do one with my whole being.”

— Dan Fogelberg

48. “If someone criticizes my child it’s gonna hurt me a little bit, but it’s my child, you know, and I love it regardless.”

— Dan Fogelberg

49. “I was blessed with a gift. It’s a gift and a curse. It never ends.”

— Dan Fogelberg

50. “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