Richie Havens Quotes

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• Though it's frequently portrayed as this crazy, unbridled festival of rain-soaked, stoned hippies dancing in the mud, Woodstock was obviously much more than that -…
• When I write a song today, basically it goes on the stage tomorrow. That's the way it works. You cannont interrupt your consciousness; it all…
• Woodstock was not about sex, drugs, and rock and roll. It was about spirituality, about love, about sharing, about helping each other, living in peace…
• I'm not in show business; I'm in the communications business. That's what it's about for me.
• The direction for my music is heaven, of course. We gear all things to the realm of heaven - which is the mind, the organized…
• Live Aid was a baby Woodstock, a child of Woodstock, which I call Globalstock.
• I believe I inherited my sense of music from my father. My father was an ear piano player; he could just hear something and play…
• I came up in Brooklyn singing doo-wop music from the time I was 13 to the time I was 20. That music served a purpose…
• Woodstock was both a peaceful protest and a global celebration.
• I eat once a day if I remember, and I try never to go to sleep.
• I saw the Village as a place you could escape to, to express yourself. When I first went there, I wrote and performed poetry. Then…

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