Dan Fogelberg Quotes

I grew up singing in Kansas. My dad had a band when I was growing up. So I sang in church and school and started singing with his band when I was seven. So I've been singing all my life.

I began playing drums when I was seven and guitar when I was fourteen, but it wasn't until the early '90s that I took music seriously.

I started out when I was about 12, playing drums. I started singing when I was about 15.

I didn't start playing music really until I was 18/19, so it was a relatively new thing. I didn't play much music in school.

I started bands at a pretty young age and played with my friends back in Detroit. I've always known that I wanted to do this. It was all I was ever interested in doing. I never had, outside of music, any extracurricular activities that I took part in.

I was 15 when I started making music properly.

I've been doing music in some form since I was seven years old.

When I started to make music I wasn't as serious at first.

I've always made music - pretty much since I was born.

After playing with Rob Zombie, I was ready to go, 'OK, this is as far as I'm taking this bass-playing thing. This is the end of the road.' I was ready to kind of hang it up.

I started out singing in high school in the choir and in a garage band.

I've been playing music since I was born.

Growing up, just singing in bands, I didn't have the same kind of voice as everyone else.

I just started playing guitar and started singing and started working on this act that I would call 'Don McLean' when I was probably in high school.

I started playing drums at three, then piano at five, then clarinet. But it wasn't till I picked up a saxophone aged 13 that I really got serious about music.

I started when I was really young. I was playing with my dad when I was 8 or 9, and I started playing shows then. I had a short stint in a DIY all-girl punk cover band.

I played in a couple of really crummy bands, including one in the dorm I was in at MIT, for a year or two.

You're a constant student, as a musician.

Music became my focus. At 13, I was jamming with my mates. At 15, I was playing clubs.

I played for anybody and everybody from the time I started playing guitar, when I was 10 or 11.

I started with the guitar around 12 years old but didn't learn the banjo until I was about 18 or 19.

When I was 19, I joined a rock band, and that's when I began to say, 'Okay, this is something that I could take seriously.' When I came to Minneapolis, it just refined everything.

I'm a 50-year-old guy making music for over 20 years. I've been writing songs since I was 20, so it's really been 30 years, and it's always been personal, but I've always told stories.

I wrote poetry, which got me into lyrics. Stevie Wonder, Carole King, Elton John pulled me into pop. I started singing with a band - just for fun - when I was 17. And pretty soon, I was thinking I could sing pop in English as well as Spanish.

Well, I started out as a musician, so when I was about 10 years old, I was already in a band.