I don't get sick. I can't afford to get sick. Richie Havens More Quotes by Richie Havens More Quotes From Richie Havens My right wrist is connected to the left foot. You know, if the left foot doesn't work, the right wrist doesn't work, and that's really the truth. Richie Havens wrists connected feet 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 player believe father When I write a song today, basically it goes on the stage tomorrow. That's the way it works. You cannont interrupt your consciousness; it all comes from the subconscious, it can happen anywhere. It could be in a telephone booth. Richie Havens goes-on writing song Music is the major form of communication. It's the commonest vibration, the people's news broadcast, especially for kids. Richie Havens news communication music people 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 yourself you future time I really sing songs that move me. I'm not in show business. I'm in the communications business. That's what it's for me. Richie Havens show sing me business 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 me you communication people I actually grew up with people from all over the world. There wasn't enough of a difference to feel different from anybody else. Their grandmother hollered at me like my grandmother hollered at all the kids when anybody did anything wrong. And their parents did the same thing. Richie Havens parents me people world 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 face never look beard We had been reading about these beatniks who hung out or lived in Greenwich Village, and we wanted to find out what a 'beatnik' was, and so a friend and I went right to the source. What we learned, of course, was that beatniks were mostly artists. Richie Havens find friend village reading
