Quotes for All
My songs emerge unbidden and unplanned and completely on a schedule of their own…We have, all of us, over the years, written things that responded to the world as it slapped us in the face. Me and Nash, singing To the Last Whale and Find the Cost of Freedom. Stills coming up with For What … Read more
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. David Crosby
I want to look at myself the way I do on purpose, because if you aggrandize and try to look at yourself the way a fan does or the way a reviewer does or the way – God bless them, they all got a right to, everybody’s got a right to an opinion about it. … Read more
I do like to smoke pot. I think it’s good. David Crosby
Elections aren’t supposed to be for sale… it’s that simple. David Crosby
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? David Crosby
There’s a site on the internet that swears up and down that I’m worth $46 million and that I’m one of the most highly paid and richest guys in show business. I really wish it was true! Then there’s those where it’s like my mother was raped by a martian and that kind of thing. … Read more
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. David Crosby
[Calling you a] star is just a trick. It’s like a straw man thing. They [people] set you up just to knock you over. It’s bull. You avoid it, I avoid it. David Crosby
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. David Crosby