John Denver Quotes - Page 3

It's a great big step for me to open my heart up even a little bit.

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

It amazes me, and I know the wind will surely someday blow it all away It amazes me, and I'm so very grateful that You made the world this way

To deny this is to deny our own heritage, our own spirit, and our own souls.

Divorce is just the most awful thing in the world.

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

Horses are creatures who worship the earth as they gallop on feet of ivory. Constrained by the wonder of dying and birth, the horses still run, they are free.

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

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

all bags are pack ready to go i am standing here outside your door i hate to wake you up to say goodbye dawn is braking its early morn the taxi waiting he blowing his horn already i am so lonesome i could die so kiss me and smile for me tell me that you'll wait for me and hold me like you never let me go cause leaving on a jet plane don't know when ill be back again oh babe i hate to go there so many let you down so many time i played around i tell you know that don't mean a thing every plase i go i'll think of you every song i sing i'll sing for you.

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

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.

Today While the blossoms still cling to the vine I'll taste your strawberries I'll drink your sweet wine A million tomorrows shall all pass away Here I forget all the joy that is mine. Today I'll be a dandy and I'll be a rover You know who I am by the songs that I sing I'll feast at your table I'll sleep in your clover Who cares what tomorrow shall bring I can't be contented with yesterday's glory I can't live on promises winter to spring Today is my moment and now is my story I'll laugh and I'll cry and I'll sing

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

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

Saturday night in Toledo Ohio, Is like being nowhere at all, All through the day how the hours rush by, You sit in the park and you watch the grass die.

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.

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