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Dan Fogelberg

"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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"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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"My father assigned me to keep his scrapbooks. At first I was interested in reading only his rave notices, but I got interested in reading what the critics were saying about whether the play was good or not."

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"My father is an actor, so he brought me into his agency when I was young. It wasn't something I wanted to do until high school, when I started taking theater and really liked it. Then an agent found me and wanted me to come out to Los Angeles and give it a shot. I gave myself six months, but it only took me like a week to get a job."

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"She encouraged any artistic impulse I had, and my father discouraged any artistic impulse I had. They took out their problems with each other on me and my sister."

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"I am blessed to have Mom and Dad."

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"My father was an American who could cuss in Italian and make an aria out of it. It was wonderful to watch. But then again, he was a Gemini. I believe in that stuff."

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Amber Hurdle

"My dad takes care of me as a manager and as a dad. That's his job, you know, to take care of me. He has my best interests at heart."

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Amber Hurdle

"Money stress is what used to remind me of my Dad most."

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"I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey."

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Amber Hurdle

"I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father."

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