John Denver Quotes

(On composing for `The Bears and I`) Heck, I`m no Henry Mancini or Michel Legrand. I just play the guitar and write songs. I know I`m incapable of orchestrating an entire film. They just asked me to write something expressing the story about a guy who`s back from Vietnam and sorta lost, who goes to an Indian village in the Northwest.

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

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.

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 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 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.

I am the eagle, I live in high country, in rocky cathedrals that reach to the sky;