Richie Havens Quotes

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.

Richie Havens

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 21, 1941 - April 22, 2013

Topics

FriendReadingFindVillageRight

When I sit down and sign up for something, I vet where the people are coming from.

Jimmy Smits

PeopleDownComingUpSitSomething

I'm not a dirty fighter. Everybody knows that.

Andre Ward

DirtyFighterKnowsEverybody

When I met Johnny Cash, I didn't know what to ask: where were you born, who was your favorite recording artist, what's your favorite color - I didn't know.

Robert Hilburn

ColorYouArtistBornKnowAsk

When I was younger, I didn't understand how a mother could put her son on a plane and just say, you know, 'Here you go, I'll see you later.' And she never followed, she never came.

Jose Antonio Vargas

MotherSonYouGoKnowUnderstand

What's interesting to me is the fact that creatively, I can do anything now and people will pay attention, and if I suck, hopefully they will stop paying attention very quickly, but if I'm good, then I have my foot in the door, and people have paid attention, and I did a good job, and people are like, 'Oh, wow!'

Ansel Elgort

GoodJobPeopleMeDoorInteresting

What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.

Allen Tate

WhyQuestionWherePoemAfterCame

I don't think anyone except the few people who have played James Bond can tell you how strange and special it is and how much your life changes.

Timothy Dalton

LifePeopleBondThinkYouStrange

I think the genre of musical theatre, when it started, the pop songwriters of the time were writing the music. I think sometimes when we write musicals now, we keep writing in that same style, as though that's the musical theatre genre... We have to figure out how to tell stories with the music that we listen to now, or we'll lose our audience.

Renee Elise Goldsberry

MusicTimeStyleWritingTheatre

While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass.

Lyndon B. Johnson

LosingFaceYouYourWhileSaving

When you win, suddenly this celebrity status is hoisted upon you.

Lynn Davies

WinYouCelebrityStatusSuddenly

I would feel so guilty about lying that I would try to stress myself out and work up a headache so I wouldn't have the guilt of not having a bit of the symptom.

Justin Long

WorkMyselfStressFeelGuiltLying

I had no other interests but baseball because I never thought I'd not make it. No. Never.

Justin Verlander

BaseballThoughtNeverBecauseMake

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