John Denver Quotes & Sayings

Whatever meaning 'Annie's Song' had for me on a personal level, there was also a larger context. It could just as easily have been about love for a brother. Or a father. Or a friend. It could just as easily have been a prayer. — John Denver

I would make my job a work of art. I would like whatever it is that I'm doing - everyone's experience of me, everyone's interaction with me, everyone's discussion, conversation, relationship with me - [to be] an event within which they get to see who they are. I would make of my life a work of art. — John Denver

Saturday night in Toledo Ohio, Is like being nowhere at all, All through the day how the hours rush by, You sit in the park and you watch the grass die. — John Denver

Heck, I'm no Henry Mancini or Michel Legrand. I just play the guitar and write songs. — John Denver

Thank you for this precious day,
These gifts you give to me,
My heart so full of love for you,
Sings praise for all I see,
Oh, sing, for every mother's love,
For every childhood tear,
Oh, sing, for all the stars above,
The peace beyond all fear — John Denver

No one person has to do it all but if each one of us follow our heart and our own inclinations we will find the small things that we can do to create a sustainable future and a healthy environment. — John Denver

Home grown tomatoes, home grown tomatoes
What would life be like without homegrown tomatoes
Only two things that money can't buy
That's true love and home grown tomatoes. — John Denver

Love is a light that shines from heart to heart ... — John Denver

It's a great big step for me to open my heart up even a little bit. — John Denver

Many things made me become a vegetarian, among them the higher food yield as a solution to world hunger. — John Denver

The nuclear arms race is like two people sitting in a pool of gasoline spending all their time making matches. — John Denver

Romance lasts forever, love don't fade away. They may take away our future, but they can't stop yesterday. — John Denver

You Fill Up My Senses — John Denver

Sunshine on the water looks so lovely — John Denver

I don't want to just entertain people. I want to touch them. — John Denver

If as an environmentalist we are against anything ... it is against the arrogance of power and the most obcene ways it shows up, which is in greed. — John Denver

I believe that we are here for each other, not against each other. Everything comes from an understanding that you are a gift in my life - whoever you are, whatever our differences. — John Denver

Country roads, take me home, to the place I belong — John Denver

I would so much like young people to have a sense of the gift that they are. Not many of them feel like that. — John Denver

Fear does the choosing between right and wrong. — John Denver

I got me a fine wife and I got me old fiddle, when the suns coming up I got cakes on the griddle. And life ain't nothing, but a funny, funny riddle. — John Denver

So many things I long for have so often been denied — John Denver

To live on the land we must learn from the ocean, to be true as the tide and free as the wind swell. — John Denver

Death is not an ending, but a symbol of movement along the path upon which we are all traveling. As it may be painful to lose contact with the physical aspect of one we love, the Spirit can never be lost. We have been and always will be a part of each other. — John Denver

There's one piece of advice my dad gave me when he dropped me off at college. He said, "You've got the talent. You can sing and play guitar. That doesn't make you any better than anyone else.". — John Denver

Reach for the heavens, and hope for the future, and all that will be, not what we are. — John Denver

I think the biggest problem in the world is that we have a generation of young people, and maybe two, who don't think it's going to get any better. — John Denver

At times I've got a really big ego. But I'll tell you the best thing about me. I'm some guy's dad; I'm some little gal's dad. When I die, if they say I was Annie's husband and Zachary John and Anna Kate's father, boy, that's enough for me to be remembered by. That's more than enough. — John Denver

To deny this is to deny our own heritage, our own spirit, and our own souls. — John Denver

I've always liked to think that we put ourselves in the circumstances in life that will support us moving through to wherever it is our spirit is going. — John Denver

I'm leaving my sorrows and all my memories behind to see what I find, somewhere in the shade near the sound of a sweet singing river, somewhere in the sun where the mountains make love to the sky. — John Denver

Commit yourself to do whatever it is you can contribute in order to create a healthy and sustainable future - the world needs you desperately. Find that in yourself and make a commitment - that is what will change the world. — John Denver

Relax, ease back in your seats and let the music take you wherever it does. — John Denver

Though the singer is silent ... there is still the truth of the song. — John Denver

Things go up and down. If you can survive the down, it will come back. — John Denver

So welcome the wind and the wisdom she offers, follow her summons when she calls again.
In your heart and your spirit, let the breezes surround you.
Lift up your voice then and sing with the wind. — John Denver

Divorce is just the most awful thing in the world. — John Denver

We don't teach kids how to feel, we don't give them the words to go by. — John Denver

I've had a deep love affair with skiing for many years. — John Denver

On the road of experience, join in the living day; if there's an answer, it's just that it is that way. — John Denver

Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy. — John Denver

I think more about the family now. That's an interesting progression for me. — John Denver

There's an aspect of human nature in which we want to think we're better than somebody else. They're a different color. They speak a different language. They have a different name for the Creator. Whatever it is, that makes it okay for me to hate them, to try to get some of their land or some of their resources. — John Denver

The gift is you. — John Denver

I was never trying to write a hit. I was just trying to write good songs and get a message out, and it was my great good fortune to be popular. — John Denver

I'm leaving on a jet plane
Don't know when I'll be back again — John Denver

Talk of poems and prayers and promises, and things that we believe in. How sweet it is to love someone, how right it is to care, how long it's been since yesterday. — John Denver

Love the earth as you would love yourself. — John Denver

I know he'd be a poorer man if he never saw an eagle fly. — John Denver

Today While the blossoms still cling to the vine I'll taste your strawberries I'll drink your sweet wine A million tomorrows shall all pass away Here I forget all the joy that is mine. Today I'll be a dandy and I'll be a rover You know who I am by the songs that I sing I'll feast at your table I'll sleep in your clover Who cares what tomorrow shall bring I can't be contented with yesterday's glory I can't live on promises winter to spring Today is my moment and now is my story I'll laugh and I'll cry and I'll sing — John Denver

Music does bring people together.
It allows us to experience the same emotions — John Denver

Imagine what it might do to the human spirit to know that we have conquered hunger as a world wide societal issue? — John Denver

The Earth is our mother just turning around, with her trees in the forest and roots underground. Our father above us whose sigh is the wind, paint us a rainbow without any end. — John Denver

I know I'm incapable of orchestrating an entire film. — John Denver

Faith is a kind of knowing; it is different from hope. My faith is that life is purposeful; of that I'm sure. There is a God, there is intelligence, there is consciousness. And behind all of this, there is incredible compassion. — John Denver

Horses are creatures who worship the earth as they gallop on feet of ivory. Constrained by the wonder of dying and birth, the horses still run, they are free. — John Denver

Aspen is the life to live, see how much there is to give. See how strongly you believe, see how much you may receive. — John Denver

Perhaps love is like a resting place, a shelter from the storm. It exists to give you comfort, it is there to keep you warm, and in those times of trouble when you are most alone, the memory of love will bring you home. — John Denver

There's a man who is my brother,
I just don't know his name,
But I know his home and family,
Because I know we feel the same,
And it hurts me when he's hungry,
Or when his children cry,
I too am a father,
That little one is mine
It's about time we begin it,
To turn the world around,
It's about time we start to make it,
The dream we've always known,
It's about time we start to live it,
The family of man,
It's about time,
It's about changes,
And it's about time,
It's about you and me together,
And it's about time — John Denver

What one man can do is dream. What one man can do is love. What one man can do is change the world. — John Denver

I get an awful lot of fan mail, and I read all that I can. — John Denver

For the children and the flowers are my sisters and my brothers, come and stand beside me, we can find a better way. — John Denver

Come dance with the west wind and touch on the mountain tops Sail o'er the canyons and up to the stars And reach for the heavens and hope for the future And all that we can be and not what we are ... — John Denver

Kiss me, and smile for me, tell me that you'll wait for me. Hold me like you'll never let me go. — John Denver

I am the hawk and there's blood in my feathers, but time is still turning they soon will be dry. And all those who see me and all who believe in me, share in the freedom I feel when I fly. — John Denver

Peace is a conscious choice. — John Denver

All bags are pack ready to go
i am standing here outside your door
i hate to wake you up to say goodbye
dawn is braking its early morn
the taxi waiting he blowing his horn
already i am so lonesome i could die
so kiss me and smile for me tell me that you'll wait for me and hold me like you never let me go
cause leaving on a jet plane don't know when ill be back again oh babe i hate to go
there so many let you down so many time i played around i tell you know that don't mean a thing every plase i go i'll think of you every song i sing i'll sing for you. — John Denver

The best thing you have to offer the world is yourself. You don't have to copy anyone else. If you do, you're second best. To achieve success is to be first, and that's being yourself. — John Denver

We must begin to make what I call 'conscious choices', and to really recognize that we are the same. It's from that place in my heart that I write my songs. — John Denver

My purpose in performing is to communicate the joy I experience in living. — John Denver

There has never been a time on Earth like we see today. What we need are more ways to experience our interconnectedness - it is a precursor to deep love. So in this quickening light, with the dawn of each new day, let us look for love. Let us no longer struggle. Let us ever become who we most want to be. As we begin to be who we truly are, the world will be a better place. — John Denver

It amazes me, and I know the wind will surely someday blow it all away It amazes me, and I'm so very grateful that You made the world this way — John Denver

And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay"
"Well, I'm sorry, my son, but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away. — John Denver

My faith will proclaim it is so - we are never alone. — John Denver

Love is why I came here in the first place. — John Denver