Top 70 John Denver Quotes
#1. 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
#2. The nuclear arms race is like two people sitting in a pool of gasoline spending all their time making matches.
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#3. I don't want to just entertain people. I want to touch them.
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#4. 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.
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#5. 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.
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#6. I'm leaving on a jet plane
Don't know when I'll be back again
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#7. 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
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#8. To live on the land we must learn from the ocean, to be true as the tide and free as the wind swell.
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#9. Romance lasts forever, love don't fade away. They may take away our future, but they can't stop yesterday.
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#10. To deny this is to deny our own heritage, our own spirit, and our own souls.
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#11. Divorce is just the most awful thing in the world.
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#12. 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.".
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#13. My faith will proclaim it is so - we are never alone.
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#14. 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.
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#15. 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.
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#16. 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.
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#17. Things go up and down. If you can survive the down, it will come back.
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#18. 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.
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#19. 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.
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#20. For the children and the flowers are my sisters and my brothers, come and stand beside me, we can find a better way.
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#21. So many things I long for have so often been denied
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#22. 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.
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#23. Though the singer is silent ... there is still the truth of the song.
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#24. 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.
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#25. 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.
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#26. My purpose in performing is to communicate the joy I experience in living.
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#27. Relax, ease back in your seats and let the music take you wherever it does.
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#28. 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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#29. Love the earth as you would love yourself.
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#30. 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.
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#31. 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.
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#32. On the road of experience, join in the living day; if there's an answer, it's just that it is that way.
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#33. I've always liked to think that we put ourselves in the circumstances in life that will support us moving through to wherever it is our spirit is going.
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#35. Country roads, take me home, to the place I belong
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#36. So welcome the wind and the wisdom she offers, follow her summons when she calls again.
In your heart and your spirit, let the breezes surround you.
Lift up your voice then and sing with the wind.
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#37. 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.
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#38. I've had a deep love affair with skiing for many years.
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#39. Thank you for this precious day,
These gifts you give to me,
My heart so full of love for you,
Sings praise for all I see,
Oh, sing, for every mother's love,
For every childhood tear,
Oh, sing, for all the stars above,
The peace beyond all fear
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#40. Many things made me become a vegetarian, among them the higher food yield as a solution to world hunger.
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#41. What one man can do is dream. What one man can do is love. What one man can do is change the world.
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#42. Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy.
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#43. Music does bring people together.
It allows us to experience the same emotions
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#45. Aspen is the life to live, see how much there is to give. See how strongly you believe, see how much you may receive.
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#46. Love is a light that shines from heart to heart ...
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#47. Heck, I'm no Henry Mancini or Michel Legrand. I just play the guitar and write songs.
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#48. I think more about the family now. That's an interesting progression for me.
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#50. And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay"
"Well, I'm sorry, my son, but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away.
John Denver
#51. We don't teach kids how to feel, we don't give them the words to go by.
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#52. 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.
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#54. 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.
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#55. 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.
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#56. I know I'm incapable of orchestrating an entire film.
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#57. Reach for the heavens, and hope for the future, and all that will be, not what we are.
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#58. Imagine what it might do to the human spirit to know that we have conquered hunger as a world wide societal issue?
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#59. It's a great big step for me to open my heart up even a little bit.
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#60. 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.
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#61. Love is why I came here in the first place.
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#62. 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.
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#63. 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.
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#64. Fear does the choosing between right and wrong.
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#65. Kiss me, and smile for me, tell me that you'll wait for me. Hold me like you'll never let me go.
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#66. 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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#67. I get an awful lot of fan mail, and I read all that I can.
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#68. 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.
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#69. I know he'd be a poorer man if he never saw an eagle fly.
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#70. 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.
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