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Woodstock was both a peaceful protest and a global celebration.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: January 21st, 1941

Died: April 22nd, 2013

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