Richie Havens Quotes

• Woodstock no iba de sexo, drogas y rock and roll. Se trataba de espiritualidad, de amor, de compartir, de ayudarse unos a otros, de vivir en paz y armonía.

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  Love, Spiritual, Peace

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• The direction for my music is heaven, of course. We gear all things to the realm of heaven - which is the mind, the organized mind.

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  Organized Mind, Heaven, Gears

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• 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 making myself ready to go, joyfully and willingly. I think I'm ready to be everybody's friend, and to do anything for anybody. It's heavy.

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  Pensamiento, mente, energía

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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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  Communication, Shows, Show Business

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• Woodstock was both a peaceful protest and a global celebration.

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  Peaceful, Celebration, Woodstock

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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 - or we wouldn't still be talking about it in 2009. People of all ages and colors came together in the fields of Max Yasgur's farm.

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  Crazy, Hippie, Rain

  "Richie Havens in his own words" by Richie Havens, www.cnn.com. April 23, 2013.

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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, not me, not first!' I had to go on stage because there was no one else to go on first - the concert was already two-and-a-half hours late.

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  Two, Goes On, Half

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Nothing has really changed. We had bootleg albums in the '60s and today we have Internet file sharing. They just found a better way to do it -- get music for free. What's great about today is an artist has an opportunity to go direct to their audience without dealing with a middleman. People can go directly to the web for CDs, DVDs and downloads. I think that's the best thing that's happened, that people's music is being flashed around the world.

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  Opportunity, Thinking, Artist

  "Richie Havens Interview: Woodstock, Dylan and Greenwich Village". Interview With Rick Landers, guitarinternational.com.

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• 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 I drew portraits for a couple of years. It took a while before I thought about picking up a guitar.

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  Pareja, Guitarra, Años

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• Woodstock happened in August 1969, long before the Internet and mobile phones made it possible to communicate instantly with anyone, anywhere. It was a time when we werent able to witness world events or the horrors of war live on 24-hour news channels.

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  War, Phones, August

  "Commentary: Woodstock, world's biggest family reunion" by Richie Havens, www.cnn.com. August 12, 2009.

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• I remember the first time I was booked into a jazz club. I was scared to death. I'm not a jazz artist. So I got to the club and spotted this big poster saying, 'Richie Havens, folk jazz artist.' Then I'd go to a rock club and I'm billed as a 'folk rock performer' and in the blues clubs I'd be a 'folk blues entertainer.'

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  Artist, Rocks, Clubs

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• I eat once a day if I remember, and I try never to go to sleep.

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  Sleep, Trying, Remember

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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. That music served a purpose of keeping a lot of people out of trouble, and also it was a passport from one neighborhood to another.

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  People, Singing, Purpose

  "Folk singer Richie Havens dead at 72" by Alan Duke, www.cnn.com. April 23, 2013.

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• My right wrist is connected to the left foot. You know, if the left foot doesn't work, the right wrist doesn't work, and that's really the truth.

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  Feet, Wrists, Connected

  "'Talk Of The Nation' Remembers Folk Singer Richie Havens". "Talk of the Nation", www.npr.org. April 23, 2013.

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• My mother's family came from the British West Indies. And my father's family came from, well, my father's father came from the Montana/South Dakota area. They were Blackfoot Indian.

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  Mother, Father, West Indies

  "Richie Havens: Face to Face with His Face". Interview With Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. September 26, 2006.

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

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  Sick, Havens, I Can

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

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  Baby, Children, Aids

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• 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. That maybe there's only a cast for so many faces, and we live everywhere.

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  Country, Believe, Faces

  "Richie Havens: Face to Face with His Face". Interview With Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. September 26, 2006.

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• I tended to listen to doo-wop, but my grandmother would always have the radio on all day and she'd start with Yiddish and then move on to gospel and later to "make believe" ballroom music. I got to hear all kinds of music and my mother would get up to go to work listening to country music. That was her alarm clock. My dad was a jazz lover and listened to the man who wrote "Misty", Errol Garner. He loved piano players, so I got to listen to that as well.

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  Country, Mother, Dad

  "Richie Havens Interview: Woodstock, Dylan and Greenwich Village". Interview With Rick Landers, guitarinternational.com.

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• 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 road six days a week, go home and change bags, and then be gone for another six days.

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  Home, College, Three

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• Empecé solo, pero a mediados de los 60 me convertí en un trío: una conga y otro guitarrista. Y así he trabajado la mayor parte del tiempo.

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  Trios, Congas, Havens

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

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  Nine, Moved, I Can

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• 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 it.

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  Father, Believe, Player

  "Folk singer Richie Havens dead at 72" by Alan Duke, www.cnn.com. April 23, 2013.

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• 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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  Song, Writing, Goes On

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