Richie Havens (Richard Pierce "Richie" Havens) Quotes
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.
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Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.
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Think and grow rich.
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On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.
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I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
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In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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Whenever I have even a spare second, I'm in the kitchen whipping up a batch of cookies. I make a mean batch of chocolate chippers.
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I always enjoyed myself a lot in pre-school.
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Really, I prefer not to read my early books. Not that I don't like them, but I don't recognize myself anymore, like an old actor watching himself as a young leading man.
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I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler.
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I really try to take care of myself. I really put forth the effort to make a regimen just a part of my life. When I can't, for instance if I'm in a location someplace and I can't work out because of the schedule of the picture or whatever it is, as much as I normally do when I'm home, I still do something.
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One time, I pranked my sister: I put red solo cups in her room on her floor and filled them with water. Then I put string all over so you couldn't get anywhere.
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You don't have to feel confident to act confident. In fact, it's the most important acting job you can learn.
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That was the first major social sciences conference at which social scientists from all cultures wanted to reach a consensus on whether we can continue to pursue a national course in the social sciences or whether we need a cosmopolitan path that also connects us in a new way.
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I always say, dare to struggle, dare to grin.
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Never put a sock in a toaster.
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We've gone further on this album, where we have a Big Band song, kind of a Sinatra-type song; we have a couple songs that have electronic music on them. We've got a couple rock songs, maybe a little heavier than what we've done. So the title 'Jekyll & Hyde' really covers the breadth of the record.
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Doing representations of real people is not my strongpoint as a visual artist, and I know that.
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Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching the walls of his dungeon.
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I never thought of having platinum albums and winning awards. I just wanted to write songs and sing when I started out in the music business.
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Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like.
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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.
