Richie Havens

“Music is the major form of communication. It's the commonest vibration, the people's news broadcast, especially for kids.”

“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.”