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

• And harmony means that the relationship between all the elements used in a composition is balanced, is good.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Good
  • Relationship
  • 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

• Education in music is most sovereign because more than anything else rhythm and harmony find their way to the innermost soul and take strongest hold upon it.

  

  Plato
  • Music
  • Education
  • Harmony

• I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • I Love
  • Drugs
  • Play Music

• You pick projects for the part, the director, and the script. I just want to do different, interesting stuff.

  

  Daniel Radcliffe
  • Different
  • Interesting

• One must seek the shortest way and the fastest means to get back home-to turn the spark within into a blaze, to be merged in and to identify with that greater fire which ignited the spark.

  

  Bhagawan Nityananda
  • Fire
  • Identify
  • Blaze

• A sign now of success with a certain audience when you do a short comedy piece, anywhere, is that it gets on YouTube and gets around. It's always something you're thinking about unconsciously.

  

  Andy Samberg
  • Thinking
  • Success
  • Comedy

• 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