John Denver

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

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

“I just play the guitar and write songs.”

“I started ninth grade a week after everybody else had started, and I didn't know anybody. I was in a chorus class, and they asked me to bring my guitar to school one day, which I did, and all of a sudden, people knew me... in the halls, people would start saying hello.”

“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.”

“There are so many things we are afraid of, thinking that if we confront them, they will kill us. Most of it goes back to your infancy.”

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

“I think that's one of the things that's missing in a lot of people's lives. That's finding out what works for you and doing that.”

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

“all bags are pack ready to go i am standing here outside your door i hate to wake you up to say goodbyedawn is braking its early mornthe taxi waiting he blowing his hornalready i am so lonesome i could dieso kiss me and smile for me tell me that you'll wait for me and hold me like you never let me gocause 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.”

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

“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.”

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

“My activities were centered around school and football and church and senior high fellowship, and I got together with a couple bands and started playing parties, proms, stuff like that. It was the music that really worked for me.”

“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 mineIt'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”

“Peace is a conscious choice.”

“I wasn't really an alcoholic, but I was losing control. I still go for a beer, but I drink a lot less.”

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

“I ran away from home when I was a senior in high school, and it came out of all the conflicts that happen between parents and their children who can't communicate.”