Top 25 Quotes by Richie Havens

About Richie Havens

These are some quotes by American author Richie Havens Musician, who lived between January 21, 1941 and April 22, 2013.

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.

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

I eat once a day if I remember, and I try never to go to sleep.

I eat once a day if I remember, and I try never to go to sleep.

Richie Havens

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.

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

You can't even kill yourself if it isn't your time to go. People have no control whatsoever over what happens to them, and they are beginning to realize this. The future lies in the time of living. Your doing something will get you into tomorrow, if you want to call it tomorrow. If you want to make those distinctions at all.

Richie Havens

I believe I inherited my sense of music from my father. My father was an ear piano player; he could just hear something and play it.

I believe I inherited my sense of music from my father. My father was an ear piano player; he could just hear something and play it.

Richie Havens

Live Aid was a baby Woodstock, a child of Woodstock, which I call Globalstock.

Live Aid was a baby Woodstock, a child of Woodstock, which I call Globalstock.

Richie Havens

Everything I want to do, and to accomplish, is on the other side of the universe. That's peace of mind, energy, freedom. And I'm making myself ready to go, joyfully and willingly. I think I'm ready to be everybody's friend, and to do anything for anybody. It's heavy.

Richie Havens

I came up in Brooklyn singing doo-wop music from the time I was 13 to the time I was 20. That music served a purpose of keeping a lot of people out of trouble, and also it was a passport from one neighborhood to another.

Richie Havens

My mother's family came from the British West Indies. And my father's family came from, well, my father's father came from the Montana/South Dakota area. They were Blackfoot Indian.

My mother's family came from the British West Indies. And my father's family came from, well, my father's father came from the Montana/South Dakota area. They were Blackfoot Indian.

Richie Havens

I haven't seen my face since I started growing my beard, which was when I was a teenager, almost; I never shaved. So I don't really know what I look like.

I haven't seen my face since I started growing my beard, which was when I was a teenager, almost; I never shaved. So I don't really know what I look like.

Richie Havens

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