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