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

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• Drugs
• Woodstock

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

  

  Nat King Cole
  • People
  • Music
  • May

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Drugs have nothing to do with the creation of music. In fact, they are dumb and self indulgent. Kind of like sucking your thumb!

  

  Courtney Love
  • Music
  • Creation
  • Dumb

• 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.

  

  Courteney Cox
  • Good
  • Long
  • Deal

• Words learn'd by rote a parrot may rehearse, But talking is not always to converse, Not more distinct from harmony divine The constant creaking of a country sign.

  

  William Cowper
  • Country
  • Harmony
  • Divine

• Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Harmony
  • Misery
  • Depth

• Ho! Tom Bombadil, Tom Bombadillo! By water, wood and hill, by reed and willow, By fire, sun and moon, harken now and hear us! Come, Tom Bombadil, for our need is near us!

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Water
  • Moon
  • Need

• It's absolutely amazing what happens when you're consistent in your walk and you're consistent in the way you live your life.

  

  Andy Pettitte
  • Life
  • Walk
  • Consistent

• And if we are honest we have to make a distinction between a democratic Israel that wants to live in peace and the terrorists who want Israel wiped out. The Israelis were told to give up land for peace; they gave up the land, but got no peace.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • Up
  • Live
  • Want

• When I go to bed at night and I think of humanity at large, I think of all those things.

  

  Sean Penn
  • Think
  • Night
  • Humanity

• 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