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.
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What you saw is what you got, ... He didn't have a stage persona. He was a very honest, open guy and he used to drive me crazy. John would tell you want you wanted to know. He was a great guy.John Denver
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I am the eagle, I live in high country, in rocky cathedrals that reach to the sky I am the hawk and there's blood on my feathers, but time is still turning they soon will be dry All those who see me, and all who believe in me, share in the freedom I feel when I fly.
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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.
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I would so much like young people to have a sense of the gift that they are. Not many of them feel like that.
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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
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