Quotes from Dan Fogelberg

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

I wish I was a little more gregarious and outgoing.

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

It's the chance of a lifetime in a lifetime of chance, and it's high time you joined in the dance.

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

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

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.

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

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

Love is the promise that guides me.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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!

Trust isn't something that's spoken and love's never wrong when it's real.

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

Why must I be lonely in love?

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

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