John Denver Quotes

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

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

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.

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

Divorce is just the most awful thing in the world.

I know I'm incapable of orchestrating an entire film.

Country roads, take me home, to the place I belong

Peace is a conscious choice.

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

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

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

Though the singer is silent ... there is still the truth of the song.

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

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.

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

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

Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy.

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

The gift is you.

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

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

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

Sunshine on the water looks so lovely

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

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

Fear does the choosing between right and wrong.

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

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

You Fill Up My Senses

Love the earth as you would love yourself.

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

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

Love is why I came here in the first place.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Love is a light that shines from heart to heart ...

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

So many things I long for have so often been denied

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