I tended to listen to doo-wop, but my grandmother would always have the radio on all day and she'd start with Yiddish and then move on to gospel and later to "make believe" ballroom music. I got to hear all… — Richie Havens Copy Share Image
Many times, people have come up to me after singing some songs, and they'd say, 'Richie, do you know what you did?' And I'd say, 'What?' And they'd go, 'I wrote these songs down for you to sing, and you… — Richie Havens Copy Share Image
Music is the major form of communication. It's the commonest vibration, the people's news broadcast, especially for kids. — Richie Havens Copy Share Image
Everything I want to do, and to accomplish, is on the other side of the universe. That's peace of mind, energy, freedom. And I'm… — Richie Havens Copy Share Image
Richie is the only one of my nine who's really moved away. I can't get rid of most of them. — Richie Havens Copy Share Image
I must have played every college and university at least three times, and that goes for most of the clubs. I'd be on the… — Richie Havens Copy Share Image
I believe I inherited my sense of music from my father. My father was an ear piano player; he could just hear something and… — Richie Havens Copy Share Image
You can't even kill yourself if it isn't your time to go. People have no control whatsoever over what happens to them, and they… — Richie Havens Copy Share Image
I believe we have a double in every country. There's something about that that is probably a commonness that we don't make note of.… — Richie Havens Copy Share Image
I saw the Village as a place you could escape to, to express yourself. When I first went there, I wrote and performed poetry.… — Richie Havens Copy Share Image
Woodstock happened in August 1969, long before the Internet and mobile phones made it possible to communicate instantly with anyone, anywhere. It was a… — Richie Havens Copy Share Image
I really sing songs that move me. I'm not in show business. I'm in the communications business. That's what it's for me. — Richie Havens Copy Share Image
