Dan Fogelberg Quotes
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I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies.
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I'm never nervous about being vulnerable with my songwriting because my favorite artists are ones that are vulnerable. I want people to feel like they know me.
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This bikini made me a success.
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I'm a Christian, and I'm not judgmental towards anyone. I think that's really important.
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I worked as a head cook at courthouses and high schools. I left it behind when I started getting into my music real heavy.
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There's this idea of a star, and this person is very aloof and writes all the music, and they don't talk to anyone unless they go through the record label. And I always felt very uncomfortable about that.
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I've always been just as interested in making people think as I am in making them feel, and one of the things this scientific process allows me to do is make the audience look differently at dance.
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I was raised to want to work for a living. The idea of just sitting around or going shopping every day appalls me.
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My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
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I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.
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I like being 35, I like having a bit of money to spend on music and useless gadgets. The net is providing new ways to communicate and cooperate that just didn't exist in the 80s.
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I'm going to put music out when I feel like it's ready.
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I'm a total loner. I can't even answer texts or take my phone with me when I'm working!
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People are very curious and have written a lot of things about me. Right or not. I never comment on those things, because it's not much of my thing to comment on everything that's written about me.
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I think there are telegrams that may or may not be available, which indicated that I very much had in mind the need to give Europe substantial aid after the war, after Lend-Lease was over.
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I have great energy and I have great tasks ahead of me.
Garry Kasparov -
I think people underestimate the importance of lighting - layers of lighting, not just one light. I do a lighting seminar where I take a $300-a-yard fabric and a $3-a-yard fabric. I show what lighting can do to either one.
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Reading a Lydia Davis story collection is like reaching into what you think is a bag of potato chips and pulling out something else entirely: a gherkin, a pepper corn, a truffle, a piece of beef jerky.
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Do I think every culture will embrace location technology? Yes.
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Music is going to break the way because music is in a spiritual thing of its own. It's like the waves of the ocean. You can't just cut out the perfect wave and take it home with you.
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One thing I've had to realize in my career is that I can't do it all. Sometimes we put a lot of pressure on ourselves to make sure we're writing the next hit. There are other people out there, and that's what they do every day, and they have strengths that I don't have.
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China and India will take the global leadership on climate change: they are suffering for it.
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While I do, of course, now feel the pressure having had books that have been very successful, I just know I have to concentrate on writing for myself. I can't worry about genres or markets or what might be commercial or not. That never works.
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My upbringing made me think that real legitimate music is written, not heard.
