Far out!"

"I can do anything," says John Denver. "One of these days I'll be so complete I
won't be a human. I'll be a god."

-JOHN DENVER: THE SUNSHINE BOY
Newsweek
12/20/76

......John Denver took the last hit from the marijuana joint,
and as he watched the roach die in the ashtray, he smiled.
Outside the dressing room, the 17,000 adoring fans were
screaming for more. But this was a knowing smile. "No" he said
at last, "I am not happy. As Ionesco said, "I am merely
pleased.  One can never be happy...."

-CAN CRITICS SPOIL HIS SUCCESS?  HECK, NO
by M. Howard Gelfand
Staff Writer

Minneapolis Tribune
Arts & Entertainment Section
May 11, 1975

"I want to serve people."

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

"...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."

"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."

"In high school, I was a little round flat dot with no edges and no
depth. But I beat that system, man."

"When you're a positive person there are people
who would like to find something sordid or crummy about you
and I just refuse to be anything other than what I am."

"There has never been a time on Earth like we see today. What we need
are more ways to experience our interconnectedness - it is a precursor
to deep love. So in this quickening light, with the dawn of each new
day, let us look for love. Let us no longer struggle. Let us ever become
who we most want to be. As we begin to be who we truly are, the world
will be a better place."

"Let the mountains talk, let the river run There is wisdom here, there is much to learn There is much to know, much to understand In this healing time all across the land."

"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 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."

"What I want to do is be totally and completely myself and to
give myself to people. It happens to be my own particular
philosophy is that the best that can happen to us in life is
to find out who we really are. So you have a good, strong
sense of who you are that individualizes  you in the framework of
the universe and really makes you one with the rest of the
universe. And then, within the framework of that, to make some
contribution back to life, to serve life around you, to share
yourself with the rest of life in the planet. That's what's
available to us in the process of living."

"I would rather get stoned than drunk, and I've done both.  But I don't feel
that either thing is a big part of my life."

"...No one person has to do it all but if each
one of us follows our heart and our own
inclinations we will find the small things that
we can do, and together we will come up
with enough to create a sustainable
future and a healthy environment."

"Whispering Jesse still rides in the mountains Still sings in the canyons Still lives in my heart."

"Romance lasts forever, love don't fade away. They may take away our future, but they can't stop yesterday."

"I lost my glasses to find my ... glasses."

"I know he'd be a poorer man if he never saw an eagle fly."

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

John Denver is so great!!!