John Denver Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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

Divorce is just the most awful thing in the world.

Peace is a conscious choice.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Love is a light that shines from heart to heart.

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

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

Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy.

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.

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

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.

Music does bring people together. It allows us to experience the same emotions. People everywhere are the same in heart and spirit. No matter what language we speak, what color we are, the form of our politics or the expression of our love and our faith, music proves: We are the same.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

The future of life on Earth depends on our ability to see the sacred where others see only the common

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.

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.

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

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

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

Sunshine on the water looks so lovely

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

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

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.

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.

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.