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.

Richie Havens

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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.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Different
  • Day

• Think and grow rich.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Think
  • Rich
  • Grow

• 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.

  

  Rachel Swirsky
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• 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.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Change
  • Fake
  • Talking

• 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.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • May
  • Today
  • Peace

• Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Good
  • Think
  • Me

• I always enjoyed myself a lot in pre-school.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • School
  • Myself
  • Always

• 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.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Man
  • Myself
  • Young

• I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler.

  

  Jack Kirby
  • Chocolate
  • Go
  • Bar

• 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.

  

  Carl Weathers
  • Life
  • Work
  • Home

• 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.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Time
  • Water
  • Red

• You don't have to feel confident to act confident. In fact, it's the most important acting job you can learn.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Important
  • Job
  • Learn

• 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.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Way
  • Path
  • Reach

• I always say, dare to struggle, dare to grin.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Always
  • Struggle
  • Dare

• Never put a sock in a toaster.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Funny
  • Never
  • Sock

• 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.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Music
  • Done
  • Song

• Doing representations of real people is not my strongpoint as a visual artist, and I know that.

  

  Nate Powell
  • People
  • Real
  • Know

• In the matter of learning, the difference between the earnest and the careless student stands out clearly. The same holds true in the mastering of passion and the weaknesses to which our nature is subject, as in the acquiring of virtue.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • True
  • Nature
  • Learning

• Bengalis love to celebrate their language, their culture, their politics, their fierce attachment to a city that has been famously dying for more than a century. They resent with equal ferocity the reflex stereotyping that labels any civic dysfunction anywhere in the world 'another Calcutta.'

  

  Bharati Mukherjee
  • World
  • Culture
  • City

• It's not in the mainstream media, but across towns, it is amazing how there are small groups of people getting together and forming artistic collectives - they may not be being overtly political, but I'd say by channelling their energy into community projects, that's a valid political statement.

  

  Johnny Flynn
  • People
  • May
  • Together

• When you haven't met someone, regardless of whether they're an author or not, when you're taking their work, and you are in some way filtering it or interpreting it, of course there's potential for them to feel that you have, in some way, not lived up to what it could have been.

  

  Laeta Kalogridis
  • Up
  • Work
  • Author

• Most artists are going into the studio for a fixed period of time, and they say that's their album. I can't relate, because I've never made music in that way. I come from a culture of editing and remixing.

  

  Kelela Mizanekristos
  • Time
  • Music
  • Culture

• Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • People
  • Music
  • Lyrics

• 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.

  

  Richie Havens
  • Music
  • Heaven
  • Direction