John Denver

I am the hawk and theres 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.

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

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 just play the guitar and write songs.

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

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

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

Relax ease back in your seats and let the music take you wherever it does.

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 know I'm incapable of orchestrating an entire film.

Peace is a conscious choice.

If as an environmentalist we are against anything. It is against the arrogance of power and the most obcene ways it shows up which is in greed.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Faith is a kind of knowing it is different from hope. My faith is that life is purposeful of that Im sure. There is a God there is intelligence there is consciousness. And behind all of this there is incredible compassion.

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

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.

Divorce is just the most awful thing in the world.

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

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.

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.

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.