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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.

From Richie Havens

Woodstock was both a peaceful protest and a global celebration.

From Richie Havens

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.

From Richie Havens

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.

From Richie Havens

Music is the major form of communication. It's the commonest vibration, the people's news broadcast, especially for kids.

From Richie Havens

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.

From Richie Havens

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

From Richie Havens

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.

From Richie Havens

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.

From Richie Havens

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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