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I don't get sick. I can't afford to get sick.
Richie Havens / Singer-Songwriter
Havens
I Can
Sick
Afford
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Woodstock was both a peaceful protest and a global celebration.
Richie Havens / Singer-Songwriter
Celebration
Peaceful
Protest
Woodstock
Global
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I eat once a day if I remember, and I try never to go to sleep.
Richie Havens / Singer-Songwriter
Remember
Sleep
Trying
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Live Aid was a baby Woodstock, a child of Woodstock, which I call Globalstock.
Richie Havens / Singer-Songwriter
Aids
Baby
Children
Woodstock
Aid
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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.
Richie Havens / Singer-Songwriter
I Can
Moved
Nine
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Communication
Show Business
Shows
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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.
Richie Havens / Singer-Songwriter
Show Business
Communications
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Music is the major form of communication. It's the commonest vibration, the people's news broadcast, especially for kids.
Richie Havens / Singer-Songwriter
Communication
Communication Music People
Broadcast
Vibration
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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.
Richie Havens / Singer-Songwriter
All Things
Gears
Heaven
Organized
Organized Mind
Direction
Gear
Realm
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Believe
Father
Player
Music Believe I Believe
Ear
Inherited
Piano Player
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Connected
Feet
Wrists
Foot
Wrist
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I haven't seen my face since I started growing my beard, which was when I was a teenager, almost; I never shaved. So I don't really know what I look like.
Richie Havens / Singer-Songwriter
Beard
Seen
Shaved
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Love
Peace
Sex
Spiritual
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Congas
Guitarist
Havens
Trios
Drum
Mostly
Trio
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Dakota
Father
Indian
Mother
West Indies
Family Father Mother
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Believe
Country
Faces
Believe I Believe Live
Double
Note
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Home
Bags
Clubs
College
Three
Go Home
Six Days
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Brooklyn
Neighborhood
People
Purpose
Singing
Time Music Singing
Passport
Served
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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.
Richie Havens / Singer-Songwriter
Goes On
Song
Writing
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Couple
Express Yourself
Guitar
Portraits
Village
Years
Drew
Escape
Picking
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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.
Richie Havens / Singer-Songwriter
Beatnik
Greenwich
Greenwich Village
Hung
Village
Mostly
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Fifth
Goes On
Half
Two
Woodstock
Concert
Festival
Opened
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
War
August
Phones
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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.
Richie Havens / Singer-Songwriter
August
Communicate
Mobile
Mobile Phones
News
Phones
Witness
Woodstock
Time War World
Anywhere
Channels
War Time World
Horrors
Instantly
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Accomplish
Energy
Heavy
Mind
Peace Of Mind
Ready
Thinking
Universe
Anybody
Side
Friend
Joyfully
Making
Willingly
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I actually grew up with people from all over the world. There wasn't enough of a difference to feel different from anybody else. Their grandmother hollered at me like my grandmother hollered at all the kids when anybody did anything wrong. And their parents did the same thing.
Richie Havens / Singer-Songwriter
Enough World Me
World Me Parents
Anybody Else
Same Thing
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Many times, people have come up to me after singing some songs, and they'd say, 'Richie, do you know what you did?' And I'd say, 'What?' And they'd go, 'I wrote these songs down for you to sing, and you sang them all in a row.' But that's the kind of communication that happens, you know.
Richie Havens / Singer-Songwriter
Communication
Do You Know
Me People Singing
Sang
Richie
Row
Times People
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Crazy
Dancing
Hippie
Max
Mud
Rain
Woodstock
Ages
Colors
Farm
Festival
Frequently
Hippies
Portrayed
Unbridled
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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.'
Richie Havens / Singer-Songwriter
Artist
Clubs
Jazz
Rocks
Blues
Booked
Folk
Haven
Poster
Richie
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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.
Richie Havens / Singer-Songwriter
Tomorrow
Distinctions
Future Time Tomorrow
Lies
No Control
Whatsoever
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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.
Richie Havens / Singer-Songwriter
Opportunity
Artist
Thinking
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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.
Richie Havens / Singer-Songwriter
Dad
Country
Mother
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