Dan Fogelberg
Dan Fogelberg
Daniel Grayling "Dan" Fogelbergwas an American musician, songwriter, composer, and multi-instrumentalist whose music was inspired by sources as diverse as folk, pop, rock, classical, jazz, and bluegrass. He is best known for his early 1980s hits, including "Longer", "Leader of the Band", and "Same Old Lang Syne"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth13 August 1951
CityPeoria, IL
CountryUnited States of America
The outlet for my sorrow, that I do feel deeply, and the pain, is the songs. That's where it goes.
The people who come to me are the people who are meant to come to me.
How many more idols must you find before you realize that you are the one you have been searching for?
Storybook endings never appear. They're just 'someone's' way of leading us here.
Tennessee helps me open up. I'm much more vulnerable there, more willing to talk about anything.
Phoenix was a tougher record, a little more commercially accessible record.
People who listen to my records expect the ballads from me. The rock 'n roll is on there because it's another mode of expression.
Longer is not my best song, it's just a classic love song, and every songwriter always dreams of writing a classic love song.
Life isn't all that sad. I'm a happy person.
It's only an interim trip. I love the music, but it's really giving me a way in which I can comfortably explore my art.
It's a very important issue to me, trying to wake people up to the fact that we'd better take better care of our planet.
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.
If people are willing to buy it and listen to it and they like it and enjoy it, then it's viable.
I've been writing a lot of country music again. I've written some bluegrass material. I'm having a good time doing that.