Dan Fogelberg Quotes

I don't know why I paint what I paint. I think it comes out - it's kind of my subconscious or something.

There's actually something interesting about having no rehearsal time - you have to just walk in and go with your gut, which is exciting.

I don't have any great detail or logic or exact point that I look for in a film. It's just if I get a good sense from it and I feel that there is something interesting that we may be able to do with it, then I just kind of go for it.

I believe in intuition and inspiration...at times I feel certain I am right while not knowing the reason.

Feel the world, instead of trying to understand the world.

I think a lot of the inspirations for me are very instinctual and subconscious. I don't over intellectualize stuff much. It's a very instinctual thing.

I just had this feeling about you," she said. "Is that foolish?" "I hope not.

The steps aren’t enough. Feel the music.

You don't have to think about love; you either feel it or you don't.

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

Be willing to trust your instincts, especially if you cannot find answers elsewhere.

What art does is it makes you feel alive and makes you feel like you're connected.

I had no idea what I was doing when I wrote 'Search.' There was no carefully designed work plan. There was no theory that I was out to prove.

When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best - that is inspiration.

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

The woman I'm attracted to won't be based on what I write down on paper. It's going to be what I feel.

I live on my gut instinct.

The main factor in any form of creativeness is the life of a human spirit, that of the actor and his part, their joint feelings and subconscious creation.

Writing songs and looking for ideas is like blinking my eyes. It's an involuntary muscle. I do it without thought.

Trust your gut.

I wouldn't be able to do the songs as long as I've been doing if I didn't feel the pulse of the world. But I can feel people and I know what they want. I feel like I know how they are, because I am the people. And I just have a gift.

I just really allowed my muse to be my guide and I just go with whatever I'm feeling.

Directing is like meeting a woman. You don't know her, but something strikes you, and then you just have to go into it.

Emotions can certainly be misleading: they can fool you into believing stuff that is definitely, demonstrably untrue. Yet emotions are also our indispensable tool for navigating, for feeling our way through, the much larger domain of stuff that isn't susceptible to proof or disproof, that isn't checkable against the physical universe.

True confession time: I never know where a book is going. I get a gut feeling the story is there, then pursue it with the enthusiasm of a hunting tiger on a trail. If I knew where I was going, I'd get bored out of my mind and stop writing.