American - Musician | January 21, 1941 - April 22, 2013
Woodstock was both a peaceful protest and a global celebration.
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 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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We had been reading about these beatniks who hung out or lived in Greenwich Village, and we wanted to find out what a 'beatnik' was, and so a friend and I went right to the source. What we learned, of course, was that beatniks were mostly artists.
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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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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 weren't able to witness world events or the horrors of war live on 24-hour news channels.
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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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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 are beginning to realize this. The future lies in the time of living. Your doing something will get you into tomorrow, if you want to call it tomorrow. If you want to make those distinctions at all.
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Music is the major form of communication. It's the commonest vibration, the people's news broadcast, especially for kids.
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Live Aid was a baby Woodstock, a child of Woodstock, which I call Globalstock.
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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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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.
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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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