John Denver famous 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.
-- John Denver

#Memories #Home #Love Is

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

#Country #Home #Country Roads

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

#Believe #Differences #Understanding

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

#Sweet #Memories #Sky

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

#Struggle #Deep Love #Light

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

#Art #Jobs #Events

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

#Relax #Doe #Ease

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

#Future #Heart #Healthy

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.
-- John Denver

#Music #Heart #Expression

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

#Song #Writing #Heart

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

#Future #Commitment #Order

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

#Fans #Mail #Awful

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

#Song #Leaving #Jet Planes

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

#People #Youth #Like You

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

#Deep Love #Years #Skiing

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

#Race #Two #People

Peace is a conscious choice.
-- John Denver

#Peace #Choices #Conscious

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

#Joy #Purpose #Performing

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

#Love #Friends #Song

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

#Grateful #Blow #Wind

Sunshine on the water looks so lovely
-- John Denver

#Sunshine #Water #Lovely

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

#Teaching #Kids #Giving

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

#Stars #Future #Wind

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

#Earth #Sacred #Common

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

#Song #Singers #Silent

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

#Film

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

#Divorce #World #Awful

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

#Song #Writing #Guitar

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

#Issues #World #Might

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

#Success #Being Yourself #World

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

#Answers #Way

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

#Song #Sweet #Spring

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

#Goodbye #Song #Hate

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

#Faith #Compassion #Knowing

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

#Thinking #Two #People

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

#Summer #Home #Two

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

#Love You #Love Yourself #Earth

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

#Hate #Thinking #Land

Celebrate Earth Day every day.
-- John Denver

#Earth Day #Earth #Celebrate

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

#Movement #May #Path

Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy.
-- John Denver

#Sunshine #Shoulders #Make Me Happy

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

#Running #Horse #Ivory

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

#Love Is #Firsts

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

#Soul #Heritage #Spirit

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

#Heart #Love Is #Light

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

#Brother #Children #Flower

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

#Yield #World #Vegetarian

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

#Philosophy #Cake #Wife

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

#Sweet #Prayer #Philosophy

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

#Philosophy #Ocean #Wind

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

#Romantic #Kissing #Waiting

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

#Romantic #Yesterday #Romance

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

#Dad #College #Guitar

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

#Humorous #Night #Ohio

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

#Philosophy #Believe #Giving

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

#Men #Eagles #Politics

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

#Believe #Blood #Dry

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

#Mother #Father #Wind

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

#Dream #Peace #Men

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

#Inspirational #Heaven #Hope For The Future

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

#Song #Writing #Trying

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

#Thinking #Interesting #Progression

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

#People #Want

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

#Heart #Littles #Steps