Quotes from John Denver

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.

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.

Music does bring people together. It allows us to experience the same emotions

Love is why I came here in the first place.

I've had a deep love affair with skiing for many years.

Love the earth as you would love yourself.

I know I'm incapable of orchestrating an entire film.

I don't want to just entertain people. I want to touch them.

I'm leaving on a jet plane Don't know when I'll be back again

Though the singer is silent…there is still the truth of the song.

There are so many things we are afraid of, thinking that if we confront them, they will kill us. Most of it goes back to your infancy.

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.

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 that's one of the things that's missing in a lot of people's lives. That's finding out what works for you and doing that.

Things go up and down. If you can survive the down, it will come back.

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.".

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

Many things made me become a vegetarian, among them the higher food yield as a solution to world hunger.

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.

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.

Reach for the heavens, and hope for the future, and all that will be, not what we are.

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.

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