THE SPIRIT OF THE WOODSTOCK FESTIVAL THROUGH ITS CONTRIBUTORS' WORDS...
‘By and large, the past two generations have made a colossal mess of the world that they have to step down and let us take over’ – Pete Townshend
‘Our program is cultural revolution through a total assault on culture, which makes use of every tool, every energy and every media we can get our collective hands on... our culture, our art, our music, our books, our posters, our clothing, the way our hair grows long (...) -it’s all one message - the message is freedom’ – John Sinclair
‘All we are saying is give peace a chance’ - John Lennon
‘Good morning! What we have in mind is breakfast in bed for four hundred thousand’ - Wavy Gravy, speaking from the stage, quoted in Woodstock: Three Days That Rocked the World
‘I hope David can hear it’ - Joan Baez, following her performance of "We Shall Overcome", in reference to David Harris, her husband who was imprisoned for draft resistance, as reported in the New York Times August 17, 1969
‘I guess this was meant to happen, and everybody is still with us. We're going to go on all night with the music’ - Artie Cornfield, Woodstock Ventures partner, in regard to the rain, as reported in the New York Times August 18, 1969
‘Notwithstanding their personality, their dress and their ideas, they were and they are the most courteous, considerate and well-behaved group of kids I have ever been in contact with in my 24 years of police work’ - Lou Yank, head of the police department in Monticello, New York, as reported in the New York Times
‘Hippy is an establishment label for a profound, invisible, underground, evolutionary process. For every visible hippy, barefoot, beflowered, beaded, there are a thousand invisible members of the turned-on underground. Persons whose lives are tuned in to their inner vision, who are dropping out of the TV comedy of American Life’ -Timothy Leary
‘When you’ve seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there’ - George Harrison
‘I’m the one who’s gonna die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want’ – Jimi Hendrix
