Able Quote by Richie Havens

Music is the major form of communication. It's the commonest vibration, the people's news broadcast, especially for kids.

— Richie Havens

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

Richie is the only one of my nine who's really moved away. I can't get rid of most of them.

— Richie Havens

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

Woodstock was both a peaceful protest and a global celebration.

— Richie Havens

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

I don't get sick. I can't afford to get sick.

— Richie Havens

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

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

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

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

I'm not in show business; I'm in the communications business. That's what it's about for me.

— Richie Havens