Havens Quotes

• 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.

  Richie Havens

  Organized Mind, Heaven, Gears

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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.

  Richie Havens

  People, Singing, Purpose

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

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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.

  Richie Havens

  Crazy, Hippie, Rain

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

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

  Richie Havens

  Peaceful, Celebration, Woodstock

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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.

  Richie Havens

  Father, Believe, Player

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

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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.

  Richie Havens

  War, Phones, August

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

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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.

  Richie Havens

  Thinking, Mind, Energy

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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.

  Richie Havens

  Home, College, Three

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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.

  Richie Havens

  Couple, Guitar, Years

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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.

  Richie Havens

  Two, Goes On, Half

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

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• A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it.

  Edward P. Morgan

  Inspirational, Book, Reading

  Edward P. Morgan (1963). “Clearing the air”, Washington, D.C.

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• Having listened to people for a long time, I believe many of us should be thankful not to be shot.

  Leston Havens

  Time, Believe, Long

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• Of course they fought as lovers must do to find a liveable space.

  Leston Havens

  Space, Lovers, Courses

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

  Richie Havens

  Communication, Shows, Show Business

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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.

  Richie Havens

  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.

  Richie Havens

  Sick, I Can

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

  Richie Havens

  Sleep, Trying, Remember

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

  Richie Havens

  Baby, Children, Aids

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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.

  Richie Havens

  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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• 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.

  Richie Havens

  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 started out by myself, but it eventually turned into a trio by the mid-'60s - a conga drum and another guitarist. And that's been mostly what I've worked with most of the time.

  Richie Havens

  Trios, Congas, Guitarist

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• When I was younger, I made some decisions that I shouldn't have. And, in hindsight, I've almost always been wrong when I haven't listened to myself.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Decision, Hindsight, Made

  "Age of experience". Interview with Burhan Wazir, www.theguardian.com. December 7, 2002.

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• I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.

  Nana Mouskouri

  Believe, Sadness, Appreciate

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• I haven't come across any recent new ideas in film that strike me as being particularly important and that have to do with form. I think that a preoccupation with originality of form is more or less a fruitless thing. A truly original person with a truly original mind will not be able to function in the old form and will simply do something different. Others had much better think of the form as being some sort of classical tradition and try to work within it.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Thinking, Ideas, Mind

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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