Quotes by John Denver

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.

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

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 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.

I would so much like young people to have a sense of the gift that they are. Not many of them feel like that.

Peace is a conscious choice.

There's an aspect of human nature in which we want to think we're better than somebody else. They're a different color. They speak a different language. They have a different name for the Creator. Whatever it is, that makes it okay for me to hate them, to try to get some of their land or some of their resources.

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.

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

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.

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.