Dan Fogelberg Quotes
I wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies.
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Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.
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We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
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The guys I grew up with, my cinematic heroes, have always been men of few words, but of action. Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach.
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My eldest sister Beth is a doctor who studied at Harvard and Columbia and played basketball for Harvard. She set the athletic and academic standard for the rest of us to follow.
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Part of what makes your performances more convincing is that your own image isn't getting in the way. And the more you can keep it like that, the better for your work and your state of mind.
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If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea.
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I treat the camera like a person - I gaze into it. Photos are a flat thing, and you need to put life into them.
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You can get along very well in this world by simply coming up with a quantity of reasonably valid statements.
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Infosys is an absolute meritocracy. Even in a meritocracy, other things being equal, you have to give opportunity to the more experienced candidate.
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I was the first artist, I think, to ever do an all-keyboard album. There were things that resembled it, like Stevie Wonder. A lot of his stuff was on keyboards, but he used brass and he used other things as well. I was the first artist, also, to use drum machines. I was really the one who kind of started that whole thing.
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I say things other people wish they could say. I don't pick on people - I empower them.
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There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.
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Guns are the ultimate bulwark against government misbehavior.
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Piano is like drudgery.
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So, I was always frustrated having to write and having to cut things. Why should you have to cut anything?
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I collect movies, I still buy records constantly. I collect musical instruments and most of my time I spend making music, it's pretty much what I do 90% of the time I'm home. Aside from just normal stuff, I walk the dog, I hang out with my girlfriend, get dinner. Pretty mellow stuff.
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I think I managed to trick people a little bit into thinking I'm more arty by making creative, artistic, visual work and applying it to commercial music. Maybe. I don't know.
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I toured for 13 years, and it was very lonely, and it was hard work.
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If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
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Don't pay any attention to the critics - don't even ignore them.
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You can pay for school, but you can't buy class
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I wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies.
