Generally we don't really consciously do it as a purpose-driven thing. ... It's really just a response to life. — David Crosby Copy Share Image
I think ideas are still the most powerful things on the planet, and music is a great way to transmit them. — David Crosby Copy Share Image
Jimi Hendrix could play better than our best guys and he did it while he was dancing while being completely outrageous. — David Crosby Copy Share Image
My songs emerge from my life, or wherever they do, unbidden and unplanned and completely on a schedule of their own. — David Crosby Copy Share Image
Neil Young played Helpless, and by the time he finished, we were asking him if we could join his band — David Crosby Copy Share Image
I write very sporadically. I write sometimes three things in a week and then nothing for a year. I make a space… — David Crosby Copy Share Image
Sometimes the entire thing comes out in one burst. Sometimes you hack away at a thing for years before you get something… — David Crosby Copy Share Image
Right away I thought I'd been hit by a hand grenade ... her (Joni Mitchells') voice, those words ... she nailed me… — David Crosby Copy Share Image
You tend to write as you get older about family love more than you write about romantic love or ooh baby. ...… — David Crosby Copy Share Image
I would do a Byrds tour or a Byrds record in a minute. I miss that band now. I've tried to convince… — David Crosby Copy Share Image
My father being in the movie business, I thought being an actor would be great. But when I started singing to people… — David Crosby Copy Share Image
Largely I write from life. ... I write from what happens to me. Mostly about love. People notice the other stuff more… — David Crosby Copy Share Image
When it all started, record companies - and there were many of them, and this was a good thing - were run… — David Crosby Copy Share Image
I think music is a lifting force, I think love is the lifting force in the human condition. I think you see… — David Crosby Copy Share Image
My father being in the movie business, I thought being an actor would be great. But when I started singing to people… — David Crosby Copy Share Image
I love music. I love making songs. I feel like I've been given a path where I can contribute, where I can… — David Crosby Copy Share Image
I've been given a gift [musical talent] - don't misuse it. I spent a lot of time just wasting that talent, not… — David Crosby Copy Share Image
When it all started, record companies - and there were many of them, and this was a good thing - were run… — David Crosby Copy Share Image
The greatest thing is the internet and that means that anybody, you have just as much access as I do. And you… — David Crosby Copy Share Image
The fact is that all the recording science and technology in the world is no substitute for a good song or for… — David Crosby Copy Share Image
I think music is a lifting force, I think love is the lifting force in the human condition. I think you see… — David Crosby Copy Share Image
Describing Woodstock as the "big bang," I think that's a great way to describe it, because the important thing about it wasn't… — David Crosby Copy Share Image
I'm an inveterate bookstore wanderer. I read constantly, so I love a good bookstore. I can't help it. — David Crosby Copy Share
My songs emerge from my life, or wherever they do, unbidden and unplanned and completely on a schedule of their own. — David Crosby Copy Share
My father being in the movie business, I thought being an actor would be great. But when I started singing to people in coffeehouses,… — David Crosby Copy Share
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… — David Crosby Copy Share
Largely I write from life. ... I write from what happens to me. Mostly about love. People notice the other stuff more but I… — David Crosby Copy Share
My father being in the movie business, I thought being an actor would be great. But when I started singing to people in coffeehouses,… — David Crosby Copy Share
I do see things that are funny on the net. I Googled myself the other day and found out that I was worth $250m,… — David Crosby Copy Share
I think music is a lifting force, I think love is the lifting force in the human condition. I think you see someone loving… — David Crosby Copy Share
And I thought, I'd seen someone who seemed at last to know the truth. I was mistaken. Only a child laughing in the sun.… — David Crosby Copy Share
While I was an addict, I didn't write anything. I didn't have the attention span or the will. — David Crosby Copy Share
All wars would end immediately if the various chiefs of state dropped a little LSD. — David Crosby Copy Share
When it all started, record companies - and there were many of them, and this was a good thing - were run by people… — David Crosby Copy Share
![“I've been given a gift [musical talent] - don't misuse it. I spent a lot of time just wasting that talent, not treasuring it, not valuing it, not respecting it, just taking it for granted. That was a hard lesson to learn. It doesn't come for free. Don't do that. Treasure it, respect it, treat it…” quote by David Crosby](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/1a9/david-crosby-8990_enjoy_i-ve-been-given-a-gift-musical-talent-do_2902515.jpg)
