"When I write a song today, basically it……" — Richie Havens
"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 comes from the subconscious, it can happen anywhere. It could be in a telephone booth."
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11 Quotes by Richie Havens
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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…
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Woodstock was not about sex, drugs, and rock and roll. It was about spirituality, about love, about sharing, about helping…
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I'm not in show business; I'm in the communications business. That's what it's about for me.
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The direction for my music is heaven, of course. We gear all things to the realm of heaven - which…
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Live Aid was a baby Woodstock, a child of Woodstock, which I call Globalstock.
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I believe I inherited my sense of music from my father. My father was an ear piano player; he could…
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I came up in Brooklyn singing doo-wop music from the time I was 13 to the time I was 20.…
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Woodstock was both a peaceful protest and a global celebration.
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I eat once a day if I remember, and I try never to go to sleep.
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I saw the Village as a place you could escape to, to express yourself. When I first went there, I…
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