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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
Woodstock quotes by Richie Havens
Spitz and Michael Wadleigh's documentary film Woodstock ~ Andrew Gentes
Woodstock quotes by Andrew Gentes
And it may be that a crowd at a particular moment of history creates the object to justify its gathering, as it did at the first Human Be-In and Monterey Pop and Woodstock. Or it may be that two generations of war and surveillance had left people craving the embodiment of their own unease in the form of a lone, unsteady man on a slide guitar. ~ Jennifer Egan
Woodstock quotes by Jennifer Egan
I rented a summer home in the winter on Long Island, I took long walks, and then I ended up moving to Woodstock. It was a fertile musical area and time, and I played with a lot of different musicians there, including getting into women's music, and I ended up playing with Cris Williamson. ~ June Millington
Woodstock quotes by June Millington
I was at Woodstock. In the mud. ~ Louis Gossett Jr.
Woodstock quotes by Louis Gossett Jr.
Abbie Hoffman's inspiration was, in a sense, inadvertent. I wanted to do something to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Woodstock at the time, and it just happened that Abbie died the same year. Hoffman was always an inspiration to me, for his activism and execution of that activism, and any of his books will give you a guide and a map to creating almost anything, if you apply it to what it is you want to do. ~ Richard Cotovsky
Woodstock quotes by Richard Cotovsky
This isn't the Democratic party of our fathers and grandfathers. This is the party of Woodstock hippies. I was at Woodstock
I built the stage. And when everything fell apart, and people were fighting for peanut butter sandwiches, it was the National Guard who came in and saved the same people who were protesting them. So when Hillary Clinton a few years ago wanted to build a Woodstock memorial, I said it should be a statue of a National Guardsman feeding a crying hippie. ~ John Ratzenberger
Woodstock quotes by John Ratzenberger
Down the Woodstock Road towards them an elderly, abnormally thin man was pedalling, his thin white hair streaming in the wind and sheer desperation in his eyes. Immediately behind him, running for their lives, came Scylla and Charybdis; behind them, a milling, shouting rout of undergraduates, with Mr Adrian Barnaby (on a bicycle) well in the van; behind them, the junior proctor, the University Marshal, and two bullers, packed into a small Austin car and looking very elect, severe and ineffectual; and last of all, faint but pursuing, lumbered the ungainly form of Mr Hoskins. ~ Edmund Crispin
Woodstock quotes by Edmund Crispin
When Woodstock ended on Monday morning, over 600 acres of garbage was left behind on Max Yasgur's farm. It took over 400 volunteers and $100,000 to remove it all. ~ Shawn Amos
Woodstock quotes by Shawn Amos
Our customer base isn't just people saying, 'I'm an environmentalist, I'm in my Birkenstocks, I went to Woodstock.' Solar is a bipartisan technology. Republicans like solar; conservatives like solar. Over 30% of our customers are veterans. There's something very American about being able to produce power on your own rooftop. ~ Lynn Jurich
Woodstock quotes by Lynn Jurich
You went to Woodstock and all that trash, your generation is fading fast. ~ Rod Stewart
Woodstock quotes by Rod Stewart
Kerouac opened a million coffee bars and sold a million pairs of Levis to both sexes. Woodstock rises from his pages. ~ William S. Burroughs
Woodstock quotes by William S. Burroughs
It's an honor for me to close out Mysteryland. In American music history this is hallowed ground. I think electronic music has a lot in common with the spirit of rock and roll and what Woodstock had going on at the time. We are kind of the new kids on the block and this music isn't accepted by everyone so we are still kind of getting into pop culture and I think its appropriate that this festival is here and kicking down the door. ~ Kaskade
Woodstock quotes by Kaskade
I was invited for the first Woodstock. Actually, I started the programme. ~ Ravi Shankar
Woodstock quotes by Ravi Shankar
I know about Woodstock probably as much as your average person who is over 30, where I'd know Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead. ~ Demetri Martin
Woodstock quotes by Demetri Martin
My mom had me at 16 and took me every place she went. I remember going on peace marches. She tried to take me to Woodstock - it was pouring rain. It was on my birthday, and I was crying so much in the car they turned the car around and dumped me at my grandmother's house ... I had a little attitude. ~ Debi Mazar
Woodstock quotes by Debi Mazar
It's going to be a combination Scopes trial, revolution in the streets, Woodstock Festival and People's Park, all rolled into one. ~ Abbie Hoffman
Woodstock quotes by Abbie Hoffman
Instantly, the pair fell to groping one other as if each had puff the magic dragon at a rock concert in Woodstock. ~ Tai
Woodstock quotes by Tai
I write most of my first drafts on an old manual typewriter, a really old one. It's a big black metal "Woodstock" from about 1920. I try to write everything down at once, in one sitting. The longer stories in this collection are divided up into sections. Each section represents a different sitting, a different idea for the same story. ~ Arthur Bradford
Woodstock quotes by Arthur Bradford
The 'rock world' is a lot smaller than it used to be. It's doing a lot less things than it used to be. From Woodstock back in the day and Rage Against the Machine, no one sells millions of records anymore. ~ Austin Carlile
Woodstock quotes by Austin Carlile
The Woodstock dove on the iconic poster is really a catbird. And it was originally perched on a flute. ~ Shawn Amos
Woodstock quotes by Shawn Amos
In the Woodstock movie, you see Justin, my son, who is now a filmmaker, being carried off by my wife at the time to the helicopter. He's just this little bundle of joy in her arms. And it's 1969. ~ Bill Kreutzmann
Woodstock quotes by Bill Kreutzmann
At Woodstock, we would focus our energy on peace, setting aside the onstage discussion of political issues to just groove on what might be possible. It was a chance to see if we could create the kind of world for which we'd been striving throughout the sixties: That would be our political statement - proving that peace and understanding were possible and creating a testament to the value of the counterculture.
It would be three days of peace and music. ~ Uwe Michael Lang
Woodstock quotes by Uwe Michael Lang
The boys from Staten Island would fill more body bags than Stuyvesant could ever imagine. Mechanics and plumbers had to fight while college students shook indignant fists, fornicated in the fields of Woodstock and sat in. ~ Frank McCourt
Woodstock quotes by Frank McCourt
The Boston Globe: The Woodstock Music and Art Festival will surely go down in history as a mass event of great and positive significance in the life of the country ... That this many young people could assemble so peaceably and with such good humor in a mile-square area ... speaks volumes about their dedication to the ideal of respect for the dignity of the individual ... In a nation beset with a crescendo of violence, this is a vibrantly hopeful sign. If violence is infectious, so, happily, is nonviolence. ~ Michael Lang
Woodstock quotes by Michael Lang
If every vampire who said he was at The Crucifixion, was actually there, it would have been like Woodstock ... ~ Joss Whedon
Woodstock quotes by Joss Whedon
After months of playing air guitar to 'Free Bird', what really got me into guitar was watching a documentary about Jimi Hendrix and picking up the Woodstock soundtrack. Listening to his version of 'Star Spangled Banner' and 'Purple Haze.' My brother played acoustic guitar and, idolising him, I thought, 'I'm going to get a guitar.' ~ Kirk Hammett
Woodstock quotes by Kirk Hammett
Hollywood, Woodstock, nor the hippie culture was the source of power of the 1960's freedom movement. God was. ~ Glenn Beck
Woodstock quotes by Glenn Beck
When my mother was raising me, she moved us upstate to the Woodstock area. Our closest neighbor was a mile away. She planted all her own vegetables. ~ Debi Mazar
Woodstock quotes by Debi Mazar
Woodstock happened in August 1969, long before the Internet and mobile phones made it possible to communicate instantly with anyone, anywhere. It was a time when we weren't able to witness world events or the horrors of war live on 24-hour news channels. ~ Richie Havens
Woodstock quotes by Richie Havens
Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective memory of the age of innocence. Then things turned ugly and would never be the same again. ~ Ang Lee
Woodstock quotes by Ang Lee
I played Woodstock in '69, and it really changed my life. Without a doubt, it was the single event that really changed the way I felt about music. Up to that point, I hadn't really thought of myself as more serious musician, and I didn't really have that much interest in pop music. ~ Edgar Winter
Woodstock quotes by Edgar Winter
Woodstock was both a peaceful protest and a global celebration. ~ Richie Havens
Woodstock quotes by Richie Havens
Though it's frequently portrayed as this crazy, unbridled festival of rain-soaked, stoned hippies dancing in the mud, Woodstock was obviously much more than that - or we wouldn't still be talking about it in 2009. People of all ages and colors came together in the fields of Max Yasgur's farm. ~ Richie Havens
Woodstock quotes by Richie Havens
Woodstock - I didn't see anybody play, except when I was standing backstage waiting to go on, because it was so muddy. And the weather was so horrible, you literally couldn't get there except by helicopter. ~ Grace Slick
Woodstock quotes by Grace Slick
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
Woodstock quotes by Richie Havens
Weed is going to bring us together as a generation. Drugs is what created Woodstock. Let's be clear about that. ~ ASAP Rocky
Woodstock quotes by ASAP Rocky
But, what did happen is I went to Woodstock as a member of the audience. I did not show up there with a road manager and a couple of guitars. I showed up with a change of clothes and a toothbrush. ~ John Sebastian
Woodstock quotes by John Sebastian
To come out here and play on Woodstock grounds, first year ever headlining on the main stage there's nothing more iconic. [Mysteryland] is one of those festivals that holds down the legacy of dance music it's been around for so many years. It's been part of what we do for so long. It kinda makes sense to bring the tradition over here to America. The festival grounds of Woodstock, that's pretty epic. ~ Steve Aoki
Woodstock quotes by Steve Aoki
But when I played Woodstock, I'll never forget that moment looking out over the hundreds of thousands of people, the sea of humanity, seeing all those people united in such a unique way. It just touched me in a way that I'll never forget. ~ Edgar Winter
Woodstock quotes by Edgar Winter
I don't care what you do, I just don't want to be a mud hippie like you. [From 1994 woodstock] ~ Green Day
Woodstock quotes by Green Day
The "problem" is that Comic-Con is so damned successful. People who are there seem to have a wonderful time. The very size of it makes it exciting. Wherever you look, there's something exciting. The attendees are always looking around for a familiar face. It's either 'There's a movie star!' Or, 'There's a TV star!' Or, 'There's the guy who drew the Green Lantern!' It means so much to the fans. It makes them feel like they're where it's happening. It's like Woodstock. ~ Stan Lee
Woodstock quotes by Stan Lee
Hey, I got an idea, let's go to the movies. I wanna go to the movies, I want to take you all to the movies. Let's go and experience the art of the cinema. Let's begin with the Scream Of Fear, and we're gonna have it haunt us for the rest of our lives. And then let's go see The Great Escape, and spend our summer jumping our bikes, just like Steve McQueen over barb wire. And then let's catch The Seven Samurai for some reason on PBS, and we'll feel like we speak Japanese because we can read the subtitles and hear the language at the same time. And then let's lose sleep the night before we see 2001: A Space Odyssey because we have this idea that it's going to change forever the way we look at films. And then let's go see it four times in one year. And let's see Woodstock three times in one year and let's see Taxi Driver twice in one week. And let's see Close Encounters of the Third Kind just so we can freeze there in mid-popcorn. And when the kids are old enough, let's sit them together on the sofa and screen City Lights and Stage Coach and The Best Years of Our Lives and On The Waterfront and Midnight Cowboy and Five Easy Pieces and The Last Picture Show and Raging Bull and Schindler's List… so that they can understand how the human condition can be captured by this amalgam of light and sound and literature we call the cinema. ~ Tom Hanks
Woodstock quotes by Tom Hanks
Woodstock was the antithesis of what the music industry turned into. And if anyone tries to tie another Woodstock festival to an obnoxious sponsor, I'll be out protesting again. ~ Michael Wadleigh
Woodstock quotes by Michael Wadleigh
I should have been conceived during Woodstock; it's in my blood: that burning desire to turn an absolute on its head and see what's underneath. I'm as random as I can be and as responsible as I should be. Attempting to fuse the two makes for interesting days. ~ Chila Woychik
Woodstock quotes by Chila Woychik
You know that song, 'Woodstock.' It says 'We are stardust.' And we are. We come from stardust. Everything on earth is just ashes. ~ Priscille Sibley
Woodstock quotes by Priscille Sibley
There's a lot of surplus rage from the '60s that was never really worked through publicly. I think a lot of that rage still exists, and I think you see that when John McCain runs a commercial that beats up on Hillary Clinton's earmark for a Woodstock museum. ~ Rick Perlstein
Woodstock quotes by Rick Perlstein
When they said "Make love, not war" at Woodstock, they never imagined that one would become as dangerous as the other. ~ Jay Leno
Woodstock quotes by Jay Leno
I was admired by all these hippies, and it was wonderful playing at Monterey and Woodstock, performing for half a million people. ~ Ravi Shankar
Woodstock quotes by Ravi Shankar
I'm from the '60s, but no one has ever accused me of being a hippie. I never had much interest in the Woodstock crowd, which partied to change the world, while real people were starving to death in Africa. ~ Lloyd Kaufman
Woodstock quotes by Lloyd Kaufman
What we have in mind is breakfast in bed for 400,000 ~ Wavy Gravy
Woodstock quotes by Wavy Gravy
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Woodstock quotes by Tom Robbins
Too much shit has been written about Gypsies, mostly by American women who've never even talked to a Gypsy, let alone spent time in their company, but whose claim to fame is that their parents were at Woodstock. ~ Karl Wiggins
Woodstock quotes by Karl Wiggins
Monsters,' she said., 'of course my brain has them.' As long as they stayed in there, everything would be all right. Wouldn't it? ~ Gwenda Bond
Woodstock quotes by Gwenda Bond
The only reason Woodstock was necessary is because they didn't have iTunes. ~ Daniel Tosh
Woodstock quotes by Daniel Tosh
I was barely in 'Taking Woodstock.' ~ Katherine Waterston
Woodstock quotes by Katherine Waterston
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
Woodstock quotes by Billie Joe Armstrong
I was living in Woodstock for a long time, and I thought, I got to get out of here, man. ~ Jules Shear
Woodstock quotes by Jules Shear
'Occupy' is nothing but a pack of louts, thieves, and rapists, an unruly mob, fed by Woodstock-era nostalgia and putrid false righteousness. These clowns can do nothing but harm America. ~ Frank Miller
Woodstock quotes by Frank Miller
Describing Woodstock as the 'big bang,' I think that's a great way to describe it, because the important thing about it wasn't how many people were there or that it was a lot of truly wonderful music that got played. ~ David Crosby
Woodstock quotes by David Crosby
Live Aid was a baby Woodstock, a child of Woodstock, which I call Globalstock. ~ Richie Havens
Woodstock quotes by Richie Havens
Chicago '68 was a relatively small demonstration for its time, but I've talked to millions of people who claim they were there because it felt like we were all there. Everyone from our generation was there and was at Woodstock. ~ Bill Ayers
Woodstock quotes by Bill Ayers
At the time of Woodstock, I was just 13, but I used to see these exotic hippy creatures and I did look on with envy. How could you not? In an ideal world, I would have loved to have been a hippy - but I might have been a bit strait-laced. It was my fantasy. ~ Imelda Staunton
Woodstock quotes by Imelda Staunton
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