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Many times, people have come up to me after singing some songs, and they'd say, 'Richie, do you know what you did?' And I'd say, 'What?' And they'd go, 'I wrote these songs down for you to sing, and you sang them all in a row.' But that's the kind of communication that happens, you know.
— Richie Havens
Tags: people, you, me, communication

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Woodstock was both a peaceful protest and a global celebration.
— Richie Havens
Tags: celebration, global, peaceful, protest
I opened the Woodstock Festival even though I was supposed to be fifth. I said, 'What am I doing here? No, no, not me, not first!' I had to go on stage because there was no one else to go on first - the concert was already two-and-a-half hours late.
— Richie Havens
Tags: doing, late, go, me
Live Aid was a baby Woodstock, a child of Woodstock, which I call Globalstock.
— Richie Havens
Tags: which, child, baby, live
Music is the major form of communication. It's the commonest vibration, the people's news broadcast, especially for kids.
— Richie Havens
Tags: news, people, communication, music
I started out by myself, but it eventually turned into a trio by the mid-'60s - a conga drum and another guitarist. And that's been mostly what I've worked with most of the time.
— Richie Havens
Tags: out, most, time, myself
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