John Denver

Notable Quotes



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

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

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

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

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Peace is a conscious choice.

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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.

From John Denver

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