Henry John Deutschendorf Jr. (John Denver) Quotes
My purpose in performing is to communicate the joy I experience in living.

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I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction.
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There's a difference between being posh and being rich.
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Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.
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I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.
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I figured out early on what I wanted to do.
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It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.
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It's a tough life being a pop star. You know, at the end of the day when you've paid all the bills and put the kids through college and that, you know, there's only enough left for a small island off the South Pacific.
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You're always facing the top defenders in this league. To go out there and do your best, that's all you can ask for.
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I've always wanted to take up work that my heart is convinced about. And I shall continue to do so.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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I split my commission and personal work about 50 per cent each. It is important to get that balance in life.
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It sounds depressing, but I think when you truly love someone, you'll never stop loving them.
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My general idea of the world is that I'm not different at all because I'm a girl. So I get blindsided sometimes because I forget that that's a thing.
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Similarly you can make a transition from one set of instruments to another imperceptibly.
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How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.
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I was on dialysis for 18 months before the transplant, so it was important I tried to look ahead to days like my comeback this Saturday. You need those big goals to drive you on.
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The measure of the worth of our public activity for God is the private profound communion we have with Him.
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What distinguishes Cambridge from Oxford, broadly speaking, is that nobody who has been to Cambridge feels impelled to write about it.
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I had a born-again experience at the age of 33. As a result of that I found a church where I felt I was being fed properly. I don't say that as a reflection on Catholicism. But once I was born again, I got an evangelical spirit.
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My purpose in performing is to communicate the joy I experience in living.