Richie Havens (Richard Pierce "Richie" Havens) Quotes
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.
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I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.
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We should purify our innate well of contentment - what a wonderful expression - and then external things will be in harmony with us.
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Painful emotions show you what prevents you from creating harmony, cooperation, sharing and reverence for life.
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You have to make peace with yourself. The key is to find the harmony in what you have.
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If in a country, most of the wealth is concentrated in the hands of the few, then this country can hardly witness harmony and stability.
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Smart habitation is an integrated area of villages and a city working in harmony and where the rural and urban divide has reduced to thin line.
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I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.
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If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good.
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Woodstock was about the closest thing to anarchy I've ever seen in my whole life, and I didn't like it.
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I didn't go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.
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My dad drank pretty heavily, and he never missed a day of work in his life. So I never looked at drinking as a serious problem, but drugs to me are a serious problem. I think it's a generational thing. I think older people don't feel as uncomfortable around drinkers as they do around dopers.
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In almost every task involving form, there are dozens, often hundreds of contradictory elements, which need to be forced to work in harmony by man's will. This harmony can be acheived only through art.
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All things are parts of one single system, which is called nature; the individual life is good when it is in harmony with nature.
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I love the Backstreet Boys! I think they're very talented and I think their harmony is wonderful.
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But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.
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By prayer, the ability is secured to feel the law of love, to speak according to the law of love, and to do everything in harmony with the law of love.
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Drugs have nothing to do with the creation of music. In fact, they are dumb and self indulgent. Kind of like sucking your thumb!
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I would not be good with someone who did drugs. As long as I know something, I can deal with anything. I'm really good. But what I'm not good with is inconsistency. And I'm not good with not knowing.
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I never wanted to be the guy people looked at. I felt I could only be myself when I was alone, that I turned into some kind of novelty. The only way I could get through that time was to drink. I poisoned myself with alcohol for years but I've never been into drugs in the way it was sometimes made out.
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People realised this is real pollution; it is not fog. Now everyone has to face the data and come out of their comfort zone.
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They say that if you're afraid of homosexuals, it means that deep down inside you're actually a homosexual yourself. That worries me because I'm afraid of dogs.
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Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.
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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.
