I started singing in coffeehouses when I was still in high school, in Santa Barbara. I took a job washing dishes and busing tables in the coffeehouse, so I could be there, and would beg permission to sing harmony with… — David Crosby Copy Share Image
When I was 11 years old, my parents wanted me to do something besides get in trouble. So they enrolled me in sailing classes at the Sea Shell Association in Santa Barbara, Calif. From the moment I climbed into that… — 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
