Name	Dan Fogelberg (Daniel Grayling Fogelberg)
Build	Average
Hair Color	Brown - Dark
Date of Birth	August 13, 1951
Birthplace	Peoria, IL
Star Sign	Leo
Died	December 16, 2007 (Aged 56)
Location of Death	???, ME
Cause of Death	Cancer - Prostate
Nationality	American
Ethnicity	White
High School	Woodruff High School, Peoria, IL (1969)
University	Theatre Arts & Painting, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Occupation	Musician
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Favourite Links	www.danfogelberg.com
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Quotes

My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way.

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Now is the only thing that exists.

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I wish I was a little more gregarious and outgoing.

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I love to laugh, it`s my main thing. I love to abuse the English language.

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My upbringing made me think that real legitimate music is written, not heard.

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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.

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I was blessed with a gift. It`s a gift and a curse. It never ends.

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I had gone full-on folkie; I`d had it with bands.

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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.

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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn`t worth much any more.

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I always try to give my songs as gifts.

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I may quit the music business someday, but never the music.

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Strats are my favorite electric guitars, and I`ve got quite a collection.

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It was so much fun playing simple American bluegrass. I got to meet Doc Watson.

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I wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies.

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I love the subtlety and tonal range of the acoustic guitar.

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MTV didn`t call. I guess I wasn`t hip and groovy enough.

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I never going to satisfy everybody, so I decided to satisfy myself.

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It was quite a shot in the head to do the album and then have it shot down by nonmusical idiots.

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I love to rock `n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.

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It seems like bluegrass people have more great stories to tell than other musicians.

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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.

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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!

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My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it.

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I choose to express myself.

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