John Denver
Peace is a conscious choice.Collection: Peace
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.Collection: Dad
Things go up and down. If you can survive the down, it will come back.
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 wasn't really an alcoholic, but I was losing control. I still go for a beer, but I drink a lot less.
My purpose in performing is to communicate the joy I experience in living.
I just play the guitar and write songs.
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.
I know I'm incapable of orchestrating an entire film.
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've had a deep love affair with skiing for many years.
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.
It's a great big step for me to open my heart up even a little bit.
I think more about the family now. That's an interesting progression for me.
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 would so much like young people to have a sense of the gift that they are. Not many of them feel like that.
We don't teach kids how to feel, we don't give them the words to go by.
I get an awful lot of fan mail, and I read all that I can.
Heck, I'm no Henry Mancini or Michel Legrand. I just play the guitar and write songs.
I don't want to just entertain people. I want to touch them.
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.
Divorce is just the most awful thing in the world.
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.
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.
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.
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.Collection: Life
The future of life on Earth depends on our ability to see the sacred where others see only the commonCollection: Earth
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.Collection: Music
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.Collection: Love
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.Collection: Success
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.Collection: Inspirational
Relax, ease back in your seats and let the music take you wherever it does.Collection: Relax
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.Collection: Future
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.Collection: Music
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.Collection: Struggle
Country roads, take me home, to the place I belongCollection: Country
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.Collection: Greed
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.Collection: Faith
Love is a light that shines from heart to heart.Collection: Short Love
Sunshine on the water looks so lovelyCollection: Sunshine
Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy.Collection: Nature
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.Collection: Future
Celebrate Earth Day every day.Collection: Earth Day
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.Collection: Mother
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.Collection: Inspirational
What one man can do is dream. What one man can do is love. What one man can do is change the world.Collection: Dream
Kiss me, and smile for me, tell me that you'll wait for me. Hold me like you'll never let me go.Collection: Romantic
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.Collection: Philosophy
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.".Collection: Dad
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.Collection: Art