Top 60 John Denver Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Country roads, take me home, to the place I belong.”

— John Denver

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2. “Love the earth as you would love yourself.”

— John Denver

3. “Death is not an ending, but a symbol of movement along the path upon which we are all traveling. As it may be painful to lose contact with the physical aspect of one we love, the Spirit can never be lost. We have been and always will be a part of each other.”

— John Denver

4. “Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy.”

— John Denver

5. “The future of life on Earth depends on our ability to see the sacred where others see only the common.”

— John Denver

6. “Peace is a conscious choice.”

— John Denver

7. “Love is a light that shines from heart to heart...”

— John Denver

8. “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.”

— John Denver

9. “What one man can do is dream. What one man can do is love. What one man can do is change the world.”

— John Denver

10. “Come dance with the west wind and touch on the mountain tops Sail o’er the canyons and up to the stars And reach for the heavens and hope for the future And all that we can be and not what we are...”

— John Denver

11. “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.”

— John Denver

12. “The best thing you have to offer the world is yourself. You don’t have to copy anyone else. If you do, you’re second best. To achieve success is to be first, and that’s being yourself.”

— John Denver

13. “Celebrate Earth Day every day.”

— John Denver

14. “I know he’d be a poorer man if he never saw an eagle fly.”

— John Denver

15. “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.”

— John Denver

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

— John Denver

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

— John Denver

18. “The Earth is our mother just turning around, with her trees in the forest and roots underground. Our father above us whose sigh is the wind, paint us a rainbow without any end.”

— John Denver

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

— John Denver

20. “For the children and the flowers are my sisters and my brothers, come and stand beside me, we can find a better way.”

— John Denver

21. “Faith is a kind of knowing; it is different from hope. My faith is that life is purposeful; of that I’m sure. There is a God, there is intelligence, there is consciousness. And behind all of this, there is incredible compassion.”

— John Denver

22. “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.”

— John Denver

23. “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.”

— John Denver

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

— John Denver

25. “Kiss me, and smile for me, tell me that you’ll wait for me. Hold me like you’ll never let me go.”

— John Denver

26. “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.”

— John Denver

27. “Commit yourself to do whatever it is you can contribute in order to create a healthy and sustainable future – the world needs you desperately. Find that in yourself and make a commitment – that is what will change the world.”

— John Denver

28. “Talk of poems and prayers and promises, and things that we believe in. How sweet it is to love someone, how right it is to care, how long it’s been since yesterday.”

— John Denver

29. “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.”

— John Denver

30. “Romance lasts forever, love don’t fade away. They may take away our future, but they can’t stop yesterday.”

— John Denver

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31. “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.”

— John Denver

32. “I believe we are here for each other, not against each other.”

— John Denver

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

— John Denver

34. “Aspen is the life to live, see how much there is to give. See how strongly you believe, see how much you may receive.”

— John Denver

35. “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.”

— John Denver

36. “Love is why I came here in the first place.”

— John Denver

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

— John Denver

38. “The nuclear arms race is like two people sitting in a pool of gasoline spending all their time making matches.”

— John Denver

39. “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.”

— John Denver

40. “My faith will proclaim it is so – we are never alone.”

— John Denver

41. “I don’t want to just entertain people. I want to touch them.”

— John Denver

42. “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.”

— John Denver

43. “I’ve always liked to think that we put ourselves in the circumstances in life that will support us moving through to wherever it is our spirit is going.”

— John Denver

44. “We don’t teach kids how to feel, we don’t give them the words to go by.”

— John Denver

45. “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.”

— John Denver

46. “Fear does the choosing between right and wrong.”

— John Denver

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

— John Denver

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

— John Denver

49. “I got me a fine wife and I got me old fiddle, when the suns coming up I got cakes on the griddle. And life ain’t nothing, but a funny, funny riddle.”

— John Denver

50. “Sunshine on the water looks so lovely.”

— John Denver