Dan Fogelberg Quotes

If I had to play only for people who liked the music because they heard it on the radio, it wouldn't make me happy. That's why I'm working so hard to have, yes, a profile as an artist, but also a profile as a DJ.

Primal Scream could be the biggest band in the world. They are fantastic when they make rock records - once every 10 years.

Because you have things like 'American Idol' and you've got radio stations that play music made entirely by computers, it's easy to forget there are bands with actual people playing actual instruments that rock.

I think the world is ready for some rock 'n' roll. Some real time guys that play their own instruments, write their own songs, and sing the music and have a good time doing it.

I was kind of going that route with my country music. Indie country. Which would work, if I was playing on Americana stages. Unless I had a television outlet like 'Glee'.

The thing about 'Hold Back The River' that I like is that it's a good starting place, and it was the perfect first single.

They wanted to start recording rock 'n roll, and thought I had the right voice.

If you don't write good music, people aren't going to listen to anything you say.

If your album sells, that's cool, more people find out about you, more people get turned on to what we're really about-which is a live rock and roll band.

The whole thing about rock music, pop music, is it's really for kids.

A music video is so different to doing a movie.

There's no real music on television unless it's music television, and then it's expensive videos, which people like me can't do.

Wherever there are rock 'n' rollers, we'll play. That's what we've been doing for more than 30 years - rock 'n' roll. It's made me everything from an honorary mayor to honorary member of a motorcycle gang.

I think it had something to do with my love of music, especially rock music.

In the real world, people just get on with their lives. And that's where AC/DC come in.

Capital Cities - the rock group - I'm a huge fan of theirs.

There's no album in 2016 that's better than my album.

We got our first significant pieces of press in the 'New York Rocker' from early gigs at CBGB.

I love Mariah Carey. Remember the breakdown? I loved the breakdown.

The only thing that exists to me is commercial pop music.

In the studio you can auto tune vocals, and with drums, you can put them on a grid and make them perfect. I hate that sound. When someone hands me a record and the drums are perfectly gridded and the vocals are perfectly auto tuned, I throw it out the window. I have no interest in rock music being like that.

I enjoy touring. I enjoy recording the music, I enjoy dreaming it and I enjoy performing it. I also definitely enjoy selling it, because I like to eat.

You know, the record business is much different than being artist on stage.

One of the first bands to break out of Seattle was Heart.

What the Who is all about is exactly that and it always has been. If it exists today for this concert, it's in response again to a function which is happening out there on the street.