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.

Richie Havens

• Harmony
• Drugs
• Woodstock

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• I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • People
  • Music
  • May

• Drugs scared me.

  

  Larry David
  • Me
  • Scared
  • Drugs

• We should purify our innate well of contentment - what a wonderful expression - and then external things will be in harmony with us.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Will
  • Expression
  • Harmony

• Painful emotions show you what prevents you from creating harmony, cooperation, sharing and reverence for life.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Life
  • Emotions
  • Harmony

• You have to make peace with yourself. The key is to find the harmony in what you have.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Peace
  • Yourself
  • Harmony

• 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.

  

  Wen Jiabao
  • Country
  • Hands
  • Wealth

• 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.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • City
  • Smart
  • Harmony

• I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Me
  • Woman
  • Wonder

• If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Good
  • Children
  • House

• Woodstock was about the closest thing to anarchy I've ever seen in my whole life, and I didn't like it.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Life
  • Anarchy
  • Woodstock

• 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.

  

  Al Pacino
  • People
  • Road
  • Drugs

• 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.

  

  Alex Trebek
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• 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.

  

  Alvar Aalto
  • Work
  • Art
  • Harmony

• All things are parts of one single system, which is called nature; the individual life is good when it is in harmony with nature.

  

  Zeno of Citium
  • Life
  • Good
  • Nature

• I love the Backstreet Boys! I think they're very talented and I think their harmony is wonderful.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Thinking
  • Wonderful
  • Boys

• 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.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Real
  • Beauty
  • Expression

• 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.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Law
  • Feel
  • Ability

• When we all sing in unison - sing in harmony - things come to us on levels that are much deeper than can be seen by the naked eye. Much deeper than even our subconscious. Things are happening.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Eye
  • Harmony
  • Deeper

• Chasing the sensation. Whether it was drugs or sex or whatever. Those things had become my main focus in life.

  

  Rick Allen Def Leppard
  • Life
  • Drugs
  • Sensation

• I never trashed a hotel room or did drugs.

  

  Sean Connery
  • Never
  • Drugs
  • Trashed

• There is no geometry here; or rather there is a secret, infinitely non-Eucledian and subtle geometry, a secret harmony that the mind seizes before the intelligence.

  

  Alan Macfarlane
  • Secret
  • Harmony
  • Geometry

• Didn't this beat everything? A pretty and an ugly taking a stroll together. The warden came closer, confusion all over his middle-pretty face. Tally smiled. At least she was causing trouble to the end. "I'm Tally Youngblood," she said. "Make me pretty.

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • Together
  • Trouble
  • Ugly

• The use of drugs like mescaline may serve an appropriate purpose. Indeed, "Psychedelic" drugs have been widely used in the spiritual traditions of the world, including the Yoga of Patanjali, though they were never advertised as ultimate keys to enlightenment, merely as stepping-stones on the spiritual path.

  

  Georg Feuerstein
  • World
  • Purpose
  • Spiritual

• 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
  • Harmony
  • Drugs
  • Woodstock