“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.” YearsAgeLastsMemoriesEventsPagesAgingUglyInnocenceBirthdayCollectivesUtopia50th BirthdayWoodstockCollective Memory Author:Ang Lee
“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.” LoveHelpingSpiritualSpiritualitySexPeaceShareRocksDrugHarmonyHelping OthersRock And RollSinger SongwritersHelping Each OtherPeace And HarmonyWoodstockSex DrugsSex Drugs And Rock And Roll Author:Richie Havens
“It's going to be a combination Scopes trial, revolution in the streets, Woodstock Festival and People's Park, all rolled into one.” PeopleStreetsRevolutionTrialsCombinationParksScopeFestivalsWoodstockScopes Trial Author:Abbie Hoffman
“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.” PeopleIfsArtCountryYoungIndividualSpeakNationsViolenceEventsMassAreasIdealsDignityMilesHopefulSignificanceSquaresDedicationNonviolenceVolumeGlobesBostonFestivalsGood HumorWoodstockCrescendo Author:Michael Lang
“The Woodstock Film festival is among the finest of a dying breed: a festival that isn’t trying to sell you anything, but simply and beautifully celebrating the art & craft of filmmaking.” TryingArtFilmDyingSellsCelebrateCraftsFilmmakingFinestFestivalsFilm FestivalsWoodstock Author:Ethan Hawke
“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.” MotherAreasMovedNeighborMilesVegetablesClosestMiles AwayWoodstock Author:Debi Mazar
“The only reason Woodstock was necessary is because they didn't have iTunes.” ReasonFunnyJokesItunesWoodstock Author:Daniel Tosh
“Woodstock is well known because this country is so hyped on amount. It was big. Half a million people doesn't necessarily mean something is good. It just means it's big.” PeopleWellsMeanCountryBigsHalfKnownMillionsAmountWell KnownWoodstock Author:Grace Slick
“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.” PeopleThinkingWayImportantBigsWonderfulImportant ThingsBangsDescribingWoodstock Author:David Crosby
“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.” PeopleFeltMillionsGenerationsClaimsChicagoDemonstrationOur GenerationWoodstock Author:Bill Ayers
“You went to Woodstock and all that trash, your generation is fading fast.” ArtGenerationsMediaEntertainmentTrashFadingWoodstock Author:Rod Stewart
“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.” PeopleWorldRealInterestCrowdsChanging The WorldAccusedStarvingHippieWoodstock Author:Lloyd Kaufman