John Denver Quotes (15 Quotes)

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.

Peace is a conscious choice.

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

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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.