Quotes by Dan Fogelberg

• Strats are my favorite electric guitars, and I've got quite a collection.
• It was quite a shot in the head to do the album and then have it shot down by nonmusical idiots.
• It was so much fun playing simple American bluegrass. I got to meet Doc Watson.
• MTV didn't call. I guess I wasn't hip and groovy enough.
• My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way.
• My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it.
• 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.
• Now is the only thing that exists.
• 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 was blessed with a gift. It's a gift and a curse. It never ends.
• I wish I was a little more gregarious and outgoing.
• My upbringing made me think that real legitimate music is written, not heard.
• I always try to give my songs as gifts.
• It seems like bluegrass people have more great stories to tell than other musicians.
• I choose to express myself.
• I had gone full-on folkie; I'd had it with bands.
• 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.
• 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.
• I love the subtlety and tonal range of the acoustic guitar.
• I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.
• I may quit the music business someday, but never the music.
• I never going to satisfy everybody, so I decided to satisfy myself.
• Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
• I wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies.
• I love to laugh, it's my main thing. I love to abuse the English language.