Top 90 Dan Fogelberg Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Be On Your Way is one of the favorite songs I’ve ever written. What a terribly sad song, but what a beautiful melody.”

— Dan Fogelberg

52. “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

53. “Waiting for wisdom to open the cage, we forged in the fires of the innocent age.”

— Dan Fogelberg

54. “When you are not near me, I make the sound of one hand clapping.”

— Dan Fogelberg

55. “Storybook endings never appear. They’re just ‘someone’s’ way of leading us here.”

— Dan Fogelberg

56. “Why must I be lonely in love?”

— Dan Fogelberg

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

— Dan Fogelberg

58. “I’m not the quiet sensitive little guy I was. I can’t be. There’s just too much after me.”

— Dan Fogelberg

59. “I feel it right down in my stomach when I’m in touch with something. I don’t know what it is.”

— Dan Fogelberg

60. “Love like a phantoms lights but hold in the heart, it builds like the empty smile adorning a statue with sightless eyes.”

— Dan Fogelberg

61. “In the time it takes us to look beyond the lies, we could be sailing in each other’s eyes.”

— Dan Fogelberg

62. “Strats are my favorite electric guitars, and I’ve got quite a collection.”

— Dan Fogelberg

63. “I’m not 20 years old any more. I’m not gonna go out on quite the limb I did.”

— Dan Fogelberg

64. “I’m affected by my environment. Los Angeles makes me defensive and wary.”

— Dan Fogelberg

65. “Life isn’t all that sad. I’m a happy person.”

— Dan Fogelberg

66. “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

67. “I choose to express myself.”

— Dan Fogelberg

68. “I wish I was a little more gregarious and outgoing.”

— Dan Fogelberg

69. “I kinda threw the spotlight away from me for a little while.”

— Dan Fogelberg

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

— Dan Fogelberg

71. “I’m a child of the woods. I have that sort of sensibility.”

— Dan Fogelberg

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

— Dan Fogelberg

73. “I’ve succeeded beyond what I ever thought I could.”

— Dan Fogelberg

74. “I love Don Williams records, and old Ralph Stanley and Bill Monroe.”

— Dan Fogelberg

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

— Dan Fogelberg

76. “I love the subtlety and tonal range of the acoustic guitar.”

— Dan Fogelberg

77. “I fell in love with Nashville. I got lots of work.”

— Dan Fogelberg

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

— Dan Fogelberg

79. “I was playing in bands before high school even. My first band I was in at 14. And we were playing just Beatles.”

— Dan Fogelberg

80. “I’ve been writing a lot of country music again. I’ve written some bluegrass material. I’m having a good time doing that.”

— Dan Fogelberg

81. “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

82. “Phoenix was a tougher record, a little more commercially accessible record.”

— Dan Fogelberg

83. “For those two years in college I was constantly singing and writing and playing in coffee houses and stuff.”

— Dan Fogelberg

84. “It’s only an interim trip. I love the music, but it’s really giving me a way in which I can comfortably explore my art.”

— Dan Fogelberg

85. “I went to college as a theater major. But after about three weeks of that, I changed to the school of fine arts as a painter.”

— Dan Fogelberg

86. “I had gone full-on folkie; I’d had it with bands.”

— Dan Fogelberg

87. “I don’t really pay enough attention to what other people are doing.”

— Dan Fogelberg

88. “I hate the road so much. I almost go into a cocoon with my own people out there.”

— Dan Fogelberg

89. “You think you’re winning, but it’s hard to say sometimes.”

— Dan Fogelberg

90. “If people are willing to buy it and listen to it and they like it and enjoy it, then it’s viable.”

— Dan Fogelberg

91. “People who listen to my records expect the ballads from me. The rock ’n roll is on there because it’s another mode of expression.”

— Dan Fogelberg

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

— Dan Fogelberg

93. “Tennessee helps me open up. I’m much more vulnerable there, more willing to talk about anything.”

— Dan Fogelberg

94. “Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn’t worth much any more.”

— Dan Fogelberg

95. “MTV didn’t call. I guess I wasn’t hip and groovy enough.”

— Dan Fogelberg