Woodstock Quotes

I was at Woodstock. In the mud.

— Louis Gossett, Jr

I like to head upstate to the Catskills, to Woodstock.

— Anna Ewers

“What we have in mind is breakfast in bed for 400,000”

— Wavy Gravy

I was barely in 'Taking Woodstock.'

— Katherine Waterston

I'm higher than a hippie at Woodstock

— Ray Hudson

Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Woodstock was a business. A very poorly run business.

— Shawn Amos

The Woodstock dove on the iconic poster is really a catbird. And it was originally perched on a flute.

— Shawn Amos

I'd have to say that the 1994 Woodstock completely destroyed anything that came after it.

— Charlie Benante

If every vampire who said he was at The Crucifixion, was actually there, it would have been like Woodstock . . .

— Joss Whedon

I was living in Woodstock for a long time, and I thought, I got to get out of here, man.

— Jules Shear

When they said "Make love, not war" at Woodstock, they never imagined that one would become as dangerous as the other.

— Jay Leno

Kerouac opened a million coffee bars and sold a million pairs of Levis to both sexes. Woodstock rises from his pages.

— William S. Burroughs

I have held Jimi Hendrix's Woodstock guitar and imagined what it would be like to play it, but that's the extent of…

— Paul Allen

My first film that I got right after 'Spring Awakening' was called 'Taking Woodstock,' and Ang Lee was the director.

— Jonathan Groff

Of all the '60s - there was Elvis, there was the Beatles, there was the British invasion, Jimmy Hendrix, and Woodstock -…

— Chubby Checker

The Woodstock Film festival is among the finest of a dying breed: a festival that isn't trying to sell you anything, but…

— Ethan Hawke

Woodstock didn't define a generation because everyone showed up or those who did were a perfectly representative sample. It defined a generation…

— Alexandra Petri

When Woodstock ended on Monday morning, over 600 acres of garbage was left behind on Max Yasgur's farm. It took over 400…

— Shawn Amos

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

— Michael Wadleigh

I know about Woodstock probably as much as your average person who is over 30, where I'd know Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin,…

— Demetri Martin

When my mother was raising me, she moved us upstate to the Woodstock area. Our closest neighbor was a mile away. She…

— Debi Mazar

I always say that even though my dad was alive during Woodstock, he was just not invited. He just seemed like he…

— Adam F. Goldberg

Abbie Hoffman's inspiration was, in a sense, inadvertent. I wanted to do something to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Woodstock at the…

— Richard Cotovsky

He dreamed of amassing musicians from all over the world in Woodstock and they would sit in a field in a circle…

— Patti Smith

After months of playing air guitar to 'Free Bird', what really got me into guitar was watching a documentary about Jimi Hendrix…

— Kirk Hammett

I rented a summer home in the winter on Long Island, I took long walks, and then I ended up moving to…

— June Millington

At the time of Woodstock, I was just 13, but I used to see these exotic hippy creatures and I did look…

— Imelda Staunton

Our customer base isn't just people saying, 'I'm an environmentalist, I'm in my Birkenstocks, I went to Woodstock.' Solar is a bipartisan…

— Lynn Jurich

It's an honor for me to close out Mysteryland. In American music history this is hallowed ground. I think electronic music has…

— Kaskade

“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

Many teachers of the Sixties generation said "We will steal your children", and they did. A significant part of America has converted…

— Pat Buchanan

“Fifteen years ago, the cultural critic Greil Marcus wrote of Jimi's performance of our national anthem as "his great NO to the…

— Michael Lang

The Boston Globe: The Woodstock Music and Art Festival will surely go down in history as a mass event of great and…

— Michael Lang

Even Woodstock turned out to be a disaster. Everybody was stuck in the mud and people got sick.

— Anonymous

Weed is going to bring us together as a generation. Drugs is what created Woodstock. Let's be clear about that.

— ASAP Rocky

Live Aid was a baby Woodstock, a child of Woodstock, which I call Globalstock.

— Richie Havens

Just in time for Bob Dylan to recoil from the attention, leave the city for Woodstock, and turn his back on fame.

— Bob Dylan

Woodstock was both a peaceful protest and a global celebration.

— Richie Havens

I don't care what you do, I just don't want to be a mud hippie like you. [From 1994 woodstock]

— Anonymous