Woodstock Festival Quotes

7 quotes from 7 authors

Woodstock Festival pulses as a 60s rebellion, where music, politics, and community collided in a weekend. The quotes capture moments with Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, the energy that made Woodstock an antidote to a commercialized industry. See pages on Counterculture, Music Festivals, or the Hippie Movement.

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It's going to be a combination Scopes trial, revolution in the streets, Woodstock Festival and People's Park, all rolled into one.

Abbie Hoffman

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“A hundred million crystallized polio viruses could cover the period at the end of this sentence. There could be two hundred and…

Anonymous

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I met Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin when I hung out with Michael Lang just before the Woodstock Festival. They were as…

Peter Max

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“It was the uniform of a time and place, of a nearly extinct species—the belligerent middle-American redneck who had fought in Korea,…

Matthew Louis

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I opened the Woodstock Festival even though I was supposed to be fifth. I said, 'What am I doing here? No, no,…

Richie Havens

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Woodstock was the antithesis of what the music industry turned into. And if anyone tries to tie another Woodstock festival to an…

Michael Wadleigh

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“Despite the promises of utopian hedonism, many youth and middle-aged adults quickly enticed by these did not escape from their addictions easily,…

Philip Alajajian

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