Richie Havens Quotes About Woodstock

• Woodstock was not about sex, drugs, and rock and roll. It was about spirituality, about love, about sharing, about helping each other, living in peace and harmony.

  Richie Havens

  Love, Spiritual, Peace

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

  Richie Havens

  Peaceful, Celebration, Woodstock

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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

  Richie Havens

  Baby, Children, Aids

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