Quotes from John Denver

I think more about the family now. That's an interesting progression for me.

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

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.

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.

My purpose in performing is to communicate the joy I experience in living.

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.

Love is why I came here in the first place.

Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy.

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.

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.

Peace is a conscious choice.

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.

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

On the road of experience, join in the living day; if there's an answer, it's just that it is that way.

You Fill Up My Senses

so many things I long for have so often been denied

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.

I believe we are here for each other, not against each other

The gift is you.

My faith will proclaim it is so - we are never alone.

Country roads, take me home To the place I belong West Virginia, mountain mama Take me home, country roads

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.

I just play the guitar and write songs.

Heck, I'm no Henry Mancini or Michel Legrand. I just play the guitar and write songs.