Quotes from John Denver

Divorce is just the most awful thing in the world.

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

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.

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.

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.

Relax, ease back in your seats and let the music take you wherever it does.

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.

Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy.

What one man can do is dream. What one man can do is love. What one man can do is change the world.

Peace is a conscious choice.

Aspen is the life to live, see how much there is to give. See how strongly you believe, see how much you may receive.

To live on the land we must learn from the ocean, to be true as the tide and free as the wind swell.

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.

I know he'd be a poorer man if he never saw an eagle fly.

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.

Country roads, take me home, to the place I belong

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.

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.

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.

Romance lasts forever, love don't fade away. They may take away our future, but they can't stop yesterday.

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.

The future of life on Earth depends on our ability to see the sacred where others see only the common

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

Kiss me, and smile for me, tell me that you'll wait for me. Hold me like you'll never let me go.