John Denver Quotes

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

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

I'm a John Denver freak, and I don't give a sh*t that he looks like a f***ing turkey. ~ Grace Slick

I've seen every one, from Motley Crue to John Denver, with tears running down my face. I had no idea everyone had such a hard time. ~ Stevie Nicks

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

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

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

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

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

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

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'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

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

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

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

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

So many things I long for have so often been denied ~ 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

In its power, clarity and shear beauty, Mack Bailey's voice reminds me of no one more than my friend, the late John Denver. I love to hear this man sing. ~ Tom Paxton

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

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

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

As a kid, I thought John Denver was the perfect Prince Charming. ~ Sandra Lee

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

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

You Fill Up My Senses ~ John Denver

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

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

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

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

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'd like to say I'm on a natural high," Cam said.
"This hike would have ruined John Denver," Roland agreed. ~ Lauren Kate

As a kid I used to pretend I was John Denver, of all people, and play the guitar and sing Take Me Home, Country Roads. ~ Skeet Ulrich

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

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 we are here for each other, not against each other ~ 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

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

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

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

Sunshine on the water looks so lovely ~ John Denver

Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy. ~ John Denver

In the early 60s, folk music seemed to be very popular. In the early 70s, people like James Taylor, John Denver, Jim Croce and Cat Stevens brought back the interest in acoustic music. Today, we don't hear anything. ~ Paul Stookey

My biggest regret in life is that I didn't hit John Denver in the mouth while I has the chance. ~ Denis Leary

I listened to John Denver and Simon & Garfunkel. Edith Piaf was a huge favourite. Then I discovered musicals - I loved 'Les Miserables' - and, at about 14, I started listening to David Gray. ~ Gin Wigmore

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

Whatever else I do before finally I go to my grave, I hope it will not be looking after young people. ~ John Thorn

The end justifies the means only when the means used are such as actually bring about the desired and desirable end. ~ John Dewey

Rams are taught that thoughts are thickets.
Get your horns caught and it's tickets. ~ John Biccard

I'm not afraid of the opinions of others - but of being needed and coming up short ... ~ John Geddes

To serve Mary and to be her courtier is the greatest honor we can possibly possess; for to serve the Queen of Heaven is already to reign there; and to live under her command is more than to govern. ~ John Of Damascus

We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before. ~ John Perry Barlow

Only the strong knew what suffering was. The weak never found themselves in the strong webs; the strong man was the one who found himself day and night bound and struggling, so that the work he did, the plotting and the owning and the buying, the decisions he made - and in a large family there had been many to make - were often hard-fibered. ~ John Ehle

Johnny, can't you come out to play in your empty garden? ~ Elton John

Oft gay and honoured robes those tortures try:
We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry. ~ John Webster

Innocence is like youth,' he declared sadly, 'which is given to us only to expend and takes its very meaning from its loss. ~ John Barth

If you really wish to follow Christ, if you want your love for him to grow and last, then you must be faithful to prayer. It is the key to the vitality of your life in Christ. Without prayer, your faith and love will die. If you are constant in daily prayer and in the Sunday celebration of Mass, your love for Jesus will increase. And your heart will know deep joy and peace, such as the world could never give. ~ Pope John Paul II

You see," Bouton wrote, "you spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time." Truer words were never written. ~ John Feinstein

Broadly speaking, Keynesianism means that the government has a specific responsibility for the behavior of the economy, that it doesn't work on its own autonomous course, but the government, when there's a recession, compensates by employment, by expansion of purchasing power, and in boom times corrects by being a restraining force. But it controls the great flow of demand into the economy, what since Keynesian times has been the flow of aggregate demand. That was the basic idea of Keynes so far as one can put it in a couple of sentences. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith

It was no accident that one of the first things God asked of Adam was for him to name the animals he saw around him. Why do you suppose God asked man to do that? Because once you have a name, you have the beginning of understanding, and once you have understanding, you lose fear. God didn't want man to be fearful. He wanted man to be brave. ~ John Kramer

Well, acting itself is a form of rebellion, always. Getting up there in front of people, telling stories - you're kind of going against the grain to begin with, wanting to do that, don't you think? Why else would you do it? Except maybe as kind of a way to affirm your very existence. ~ John Cusack

As frustrating as my time in grad school felt, it also helped tremendously because it challenged me to figure out what it was I thought I wanted. ~ John D'Agata

Living standards in both the public and private sector have to be brought down. The private sector has to sell more abroad and consume less at home. The government sector has to get closer to just spending what it can collect in taxes. ~ John Redwood

I think we will see a united labor movement again. When workers unite they're stronger. The same goes for unions. ~ John Sweeney

There are no dreams too large, no innovation unimaginable and no frontiers beyond our reach. ~ John S. Herrington

I want to be a force for real good. In other words. I know that there are bad forces, forces that bring suffering to others and misery to the world, but I want to be the opposite force. I want to be the force which is truly for good. ~ John Coltrane

Why should people have money if they don't know how to use it? ~ John Fowles

Without the body, the wisdom of the larger self cannot be known. ~ John P. Conger

Hunter and John [Belushi] both shared a sense of possibility, and they seemed to have no limits. There was no Governor of the night. It was like being off on adventures with Huck and Tom - everything was possible. ~ Corey Seymour

I have 800 books of just Samuel Beckett's work, tons of his correspondence, personal letters that he wrote. I have copies of plays he used when he directed, so all of his handwritten notes are in the corners of the page. ~ John Larroquette

Any peace, rest and quiet we have is from this alone. Who would be safe if wicked men had power to perform all the sin they conceive? We are indebted to providence for the preservation of our lives, our families, and everything we hold dear. May we not say at times, with the psalmist, 'My soul is among lions(psa.57:4)?How could we live if God did not deal with them (psa. 58:60)? Some he cuts off and destroys, some he deprives of power, some he robs he diverts in other ways. We must, with the psalmist, praise the Lord for his countless wise providences (psa.104:24). In the Lords right ways, the just are made to walk, but the transgressors fall (Hos. 14:9).

Indwelling Sin in Believers (pg118) ~ John Owen

If we don't be going strong, we're going weak, and we can't afford to go weak. We've got too many problems to do that. ~ Dr. John

Surgery is nature's way of telling us to slow down. ~ Dan John

Believe while others are doubting. Plan while others are playing. Study while others are sleeping. Decide while others are delaying. Prepare while others are daydreaming. Begin while others are procrastinating. Work while others are wishing. Save while others are wasting. Listen while others are talking. Smile while others are frowning. Commend while others are criticizing. Persist while others are quitting. ~ John C. Maxwell

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them. ~ John C. Maxwell

It's more impressive," I said out loud. "From a distance, I mean. You can't see the wear on things, you know? You can't see the rust or the weeds or the paint cracking. You see the place as someone once imagined it. ~ John Green

Kitsch is more dangerous than it looks when taken to the extreme. ~ John Cusack

The good thing about writing fiction is that you can get back at people. ~ John Grisham

Nothing I have done professionally will top the feeling I got when singing with John Farnham at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney. ~ Olivia Newton-John

Private confession ... was not ordered by Christ and was not used by the apostles. ~ John Wycliffe

I come from Bridgeport, Connecticut and have friends I grew up with there. ~ John Ratzenberger

I guess you can say that every actor is a 'character actor' on some level. But I think some actors have a wider range. I think that's how you get that mantle. ~ John Hawkes

To take pressure off myself, I realize how fortunate I am to be playing a sport for a living. If I take that mentality onto the court, there shouldn't be any pressure because I'm already fortunate to do what I do. ~ John Isner

Your attitude is either your best friend or your worst enemy, your greatest asset or your greatest liability ~ John C. Maxwell

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is. ~ John Von Neumann

Unlike baked beans, loaves of breads or Fuji apples, books once consumed, do not disappear. ~ John Sutherland

We began to temper Western democracy with what I'd call a social contract. We put in Social Security, graduated income tax, workers' compensation. We developed strong unions to negotiate with business owners so workers got an equitable share of the profits. ~ John Shelby Spong

The history of Science is not a mere record of isolated discoveries; it is a narrative of the conflict of two contending powers, the expansive force of the human intellect on one side, and the compression arising from traditionary faith and human interests on the other. ~ John William Draper