Top 50 David Crosby Quotes
#1. My songs emerge from my life, or wherever they do, unbidden and unplanned and completely on a schedule of their own.
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#2. Right away I thought I'd been hit by a hand grenade ... her (Joni Mitchells') voice, those words ... she nailed me to the back wall with two-inch spikes ... I promptly fell in love with her ...
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#3. Sailing became one of the mainstreams of my life. I suppose my father was an influence. I remember seeing a photo of him at home sailing a big boat to Bermuda in his 20s. I still have it.
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#4. When did I decide to go into business? Well, it wasn't a business, when I decided. It was simply a need to sing.
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#5. I come from a school of people, folk singers, and the tradition there is troubadours, and you're carrying a message. Now admittedly, our job is partly just to make you boogie, just make you want to dance. Part of our job is to take you on a little voyage, tell you a story.
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#7. It's hard to bullshit the ocean. It's not listening, you know what I mean.
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#8. I'm an inveterate bookstore wanderer. I read constantly, so I love a good bookstore. I can't help it.
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#9. I think ideas are still the most powerful things on the planet, and music is a great way to transmit them.
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#10. I can't legislate a song into being; it just will not happen for me.
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#11. 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.
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#12. Now record companies are run by lawyers and accountants. The shift from the one to the other was definitely related to when the takes started to get big.
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#13. I've met Bill Clinton, Obama a couple of times ... I certainly didn't meet George Bush, and wouldn't want to.
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#14. The movie I've seen the most times, boy, that's a tough one. It would have to be a toss-up between Apocalypse Now and the first Star Wars. I think the first Star Wars.
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#15. I am having so much fun performing, I feel almost guilty. I think, my God, I hope no one comes and busts me for this.
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#16. There has never been a communism that worked. They were all dictatorships or oligarchies, every single one.
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#17. There are a lot of people who look great but can't sing.
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#18. Norah Jones is a breath of fresh air. Norah Jones can sing and play. She's got some talent. I was totally ecstatic that that girl got noticed, because she's wonderful.
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#19. I don't think being angry is useful or healthy, and usually when I get angry, my brain just goes right out the window. Boom, as soon as the adrenaline hits, instant stupid. Just add water and mix.
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#20. The stupid thing I incorrectly believed for a long time is that I believed for a long time that some politicians could sometimes tell the truth.
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#21. Don't waste the time. Time is the final currency, man. Not money, not power - it's time.
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#22. Keep saying no to her,
Since she was a baby.
Keep saying no to her,
Not even maybe.
from "Why?" by the Byrds
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#23. It can't happen here is number one on the list of famous last words.
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#24. The people who run record companies now wouldn't know a song if it flew up their nose and died. They haven't a clue, and they don't care. You tell them that, and they go, Yeah? So, your point is?
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#25. Being a hippy was the most natural thing in the world to me.
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#26. When it all started, record companies - and there were many of them, and this was a good thing - were run by people who loved records, people like Ahmet Ertegun, who ran Atlantic Records, who were record collectors. They got in it because they loved music.
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#27. I don't like greed, I don't like ignorance. I really don't like anger. But I love love.
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#28. I write very sporadically. I write sometimes three things in a week and then nothing for a year. I make a space for it but I don't push it. They just come and they come.
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#29. I do see things that are funny on the net. I Googled myself the other day and found out that I was worth $250m, and that I was the highest-paid guy in show business! I wish so hard it was true. It is, of course, the complete opposite. I'm neither rich nor do I make a lot of money.
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#30. I love voyaging - the longest has been 3,000 miles to Hawaii. I've also spent weeks all over the Caribbean.
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#31. Neil Young played Helpless, and by the time he finished, we were asking him if we could join his band
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#32. While I was an addict, I didn't write anything. I didn't have the attention span or the will.
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#34. I believe in this country [the USA], I love this country, I believe in the idea of this country, and this country is an idea.
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#35. I'm older than I'd like and I'm creaky, but I'm doing alright.
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#36. You tend to write as you get older about family love more than you write about romantic love or ooh baby ... The stuff that you want to celebrate about humanity has always been there and probably always will be.
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#37. I get egotistical about things where I can do something well - for example, my singing. Most other things, I don't have the wherewithal to back it up.
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#38. Sometimes the entire thing comes out in one burst. Sometimes you hack away at a thing for years before you get something that satisfies you.
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#39. Generally we don't really consciously do it as a purpose-driven thing ... It's really just a response to life.
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#40. I gave up bread, and I've lost a bunch of weight, which is very good because I'm diabetic.
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#41. I want to go to Africa and find a really great hotel with good food right above a water hole where I can sit, have breakfast, and just watch the elephants play in the water.
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#42. All wars would end immediately if the various chiefs of state dropped a little LSD.
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#43. I would do a Byrds tour or a Byrds record in a minute. I miss that band now. I've tried to convince Roger over and over to do it, but he's not interested. Music isn't something you can legislate into being.
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#44. I love Stephen Stills and Neil Young dearly. We talk all the time. We see each other.
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#45. I gave a Collings dreadnought to a young guitar player in the Valley where I live because he didn't have a good acoustic, and he's a terrific player.
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#46. Largely I write from life ... I write from what happens to me. Mostly about love. People notice the other stuff more but I write mostly about love.
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#47. After all the time we [people] spent saying look, war is a stupid way to solve stuff - oh, you're not trying to solve stuff. You're trying to make money.
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#48. I use a lot of tunings because I listen to a lot of jazz.
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#49. I've always been a very careful sailor. I know, me and being careful - doesn't really sound right, does it? But when I sail, I take it seriously and take along spares for everything. You have to be careful when you're 1,500 miles from land. There's no one you can call. You're on your own.
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#50. My father being in the movie business, I thought being an actor would be great. But when I started singing to people in coffeehouses, you know, singing folk music and then, later, singing songs that I started to write myself, I felt more than an affinity for it.
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