"I have a nineteen-year-old myself." "He's out on the Coast, and I felt that we've got to give them a fair shake here." "If kids are hungry, you've got to feed them." "I don't know maybe we ought to put, we ought to put everybody on pot." "And those kids were all happy." "They were all on pot." "Well, whatever it is..." "It never should have happened." "If pot makes them happy and no trouble maybe we ought to put all the adults on pot!" "You want a fifteen-year-old girl sleeping in the field in a tent?" "What are you, out of your mind?" "It never should have happened!" "Do you feel bad about the kids who were killed in Vietnam?" "This has nothing to do with..." "It's the same thing." "The same thing." "There's no comparison." "People get more excited about the kids in Monticello than they do about..." "Fifteen-year-old kids sleeping in the field?" "They wanted to." "They're all high on pot!" "Look, maybe if pot made them peaceful, maybe we all should take pot!" "I was giving them water all along the road here, right up on the bridge and they were not on pot!" "Very lovely children, believe me." "They were selling stuff." "There was plenty of stuff there." "There's no doubt about it." "They had hundreds of kids in that house." "If you have four hundred and fifty thousand kids and you've got two or three hundred they were selling these, these blue acid tablets which are bad, and they were selling them." "True, but figure the law of averages." "If you took 500 adults and brought them together and had plenty of booze you know what would have happened?" "You didn't see any drunks." "That's right." "There was no fighting." "There was nobody stealing." "We had to feed them!" "What the hell else was there to do?" "There was nothing else to do!" "Having a good time?" "Very nice." "The water is nice." "We were all sitting on a tree stump over there." "And the more people got on it, the lower it got." "About a year ago, I wouldn't have believed this was the way to swim but this is the way to swim!" "It's the way to go all the time, actually." "Think that's going to happen?" "It's got to happen!" "You go walking down the street where all the cars were coming in and it's just the first day, and it was just beautiful!" "Everybody is free." "Everybody is talking." "Everybody is really nude." "I don't think, uh, people come here to get uptight." "They come here to dig what's going on." "And even if they don't get into a festival, it's just a groove being with all the people." "You know, you realize all over the country, they're coming together." "You realize that you're not the only people in your city who are doing the things you are, but they're everywhere." "We're taking over!" "I think the body is beautiful." "I think skinny dipping is just beautiful if, if you want to do it, if you can do it." "Some people can't, because all their their environment made them, you know, feel that it's wrong." "Even though they know in their subconscious that it's right it's kind of normal and natural, but we've been made to feel that it's wrong." "Row, row, row!" ""Row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream..."" ""...merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream."" "No, I haven't done this too often before." "Get it pointed in the right direction!" "Well, did I miss any big spots?" "Your cheekbone." "Here?" "Why don't you tell me something really interesting?" "I can't, really, standing there with the microphone." "Don't worry about it." "Don't let it intimidate you." "It's just a microphone." "I know, but it's very intimidating." "Just tell me anything, like anybody you'd like to meet." "Oh, wow!" "I don't know." "What did you think about the kids?" "From what I've heard from outside sources for many years I was very, very much surprised." "And I'm very happy to say we think the people of this country should be proud of these kids." "Notwithstanding the way they dress or the way they wear their hair." "That's their own personal business." "But their, their inner workings, their inner selves their, their self-demeanor cannot be questioned." "They can't be questioned as good American citizens." "That's kind of surprising coming from a cop." "I'm not a cop." "I'm a Chief of Police." "We've got one more tune for you." "It's called "Soul Sacrifice."" "Ladies and gentlemen, Santana!" ""I wanta, I wanta, I wanta, I wanta..."" ""...take you higher."" ""Baby, baby, baby, light my fire!"" ""I'll take you higher."" ""I wanta, I wanta, I wanta, I wanta..."" ""...take you higher..."" ""...take you higher..."" ""...take you higher!"" ""I wanta, I wanta take you higher!"" ""I wanta, I wanta, wanta take you higher!"" "What we would like to do is sing a song together." "Now, you see, what usually happens you get a group of people that might sing and for some reasons that are not unknown anymore, they won't do it." "Most of us need approval." "Most of us need to get approval from our neighbors before we can actually let it all hang down, you dig?" "But what is happening here is a sing-along." "Now, a lot of people don't like to do it because they feel it might be old-fashioned." "But you must dig that it is not a fashion in the first place." "It is a feeling and if it was good in the past, it's still good." "We would like to sing a song called "Higher" and if we could get everybody to join in, we'd appreciate it." ""Wanta take you higher!"" ""Higher!"" "What I want you to do, is say "higher" and throw the peace sign up." "It will do you no harm." "Still again, some people feel that they shouldn't because there are situations where you need approval to get in on something that could be so good." ""I wanta take you higher!"" ""Higher!"" "Now, if you'll throw the peace sign up and say "higher", get everybody to do it." "There's a whole lot of people here and a whole lot of people might not want to do it because they can somehow get around it they feel there are enough people to make up for it and on and on, et cetera." "We're going to try higher again, and if we get everybody to join in we'd appreciate it." "It will do you no harm." ""Yeah, I wanta take you higher!"" ""Higher!"" ""Way upon a hill, I'll take you higher!"" ""Yeah, I'll take you higher!"" ""Going to take you higher!"" ""Higher!"" "How are you out there?" "You're staying stoned and you've got enough water and you've got a place to sleep, and everything?" "Good morning." "What we have in mind is breakfast in bed for four hundred thousand." "Now, it's not going to be steak and eggs, or anything but it's going to be good food and we're going to get it to you." "It's not just the Hog Farm, either." "It's like the Ohio Mountain family and the Pranksters and everybody else that volunteered putting in their time into the free kitchens." "In fact, it's everybody." "We're all feeding each other." "We must be in heaven, man!" "There's always a little bit of heaven in a disaster area." "So, if you want to make it back to your campsites, we'll try and get the food to you." "Or if you stay here, we'll try and get the food to you." "Now, there's a guy up there, some hamburger guy had his stand burned down last night." "But he's still got a little stuff left and for you people that still believe that capitalism isn't that weird you might help him out and buy a couple of hamburgers." "Okay, here it comes!" "Mess call!" "Good morning." "Left side of the audience, stage right here that wants to be fed has got to slowly move it through the forest to the Hog Farm where we've got about seventeen lines going, uh, to serve with." "If you start your lines going through the forest, you'll wind up going into a line that will take you right to where all the food is being served." "Helen Hayman, to the front." "Jim MacLean, please go to the pink and white tent hospital as soon as possible." "And kissing builds up your mouth." "Richard Moss and Barbara, meet us at the information booth." "Cort Ritcher or Greg Hollander, go to the Ferris wheel at twelve o'clock." "Greg's sister has his medicine." "Okay, Gayle, wow!" "S, i, r, i, n, c, i, o, n, e meet your daddy-o at the first aid station, near the security office." "If you've got food, feed other people." "Bugsy, to the pink and white tent." "Keep feeding each other." "And if you're too tired to chew, pass it on." "We have a gentleman with us." "It's the gentleman upon whose farm we are." "Mr. Max Yasgur!" "Is this on?" "I'm a farmer." "I don't know..." "I don't know how to speak to twenty people at one time, let alone a crowd like this!" "But I think you people have proven something to the world." "Not only to the town of Bethel, or Sullivan County, or New York State you've proven something to the world." "This is the largest group of people ever assembled in one place." "We have had no idea that there would be this size group and because of that you had quite a few inconveniences as far as water and food and so forth." "Your producers have done a mammoth job to see that you're taken care of." "They would enjoy a vote of thanks." "But above that, the important thing that you've proven to the world is that a half a million kids and I call you kids, because I have children that are older than you are a half a million young people can get together and have 3 days of fun and music and have nothing but fun and music." "And I, God bless you for it!" "I see we meet again." ""Purple haze was in my brain."" ""Lately things don't seem the same."" ""I'm acting funny, but I don't know why."" ""Excuse me while I kiss the sky."" ""Purple haze all around."" ""Don't know if I'm coming up or down."" ""Am I happy or in misery?"" ""Whatever it is, that girl put a spell on me."" ""Help me, baby." "Help me, baby!""