David Crosby Quotes

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• It's getting to the point where I am no fun anymore, I am sorry. / Sometimes it hurts so badly I must cry out loud,…
• 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…
• Largely I write from life. ... I write from what happens to me. Mostly about love. People notice the other stuff more but I write…
• 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.
• Generally we don't really consciously do it as a purpose-driven thing. ... It's really just a response to life.
• You tend to write as you get older about family love more than you write about romantic love or ooh baby. ... The stuff that…
• The greatest thing is the internet and that means that anybody, you have just as much access as I do. And you can make your…
• The fact is that all the recording science and technology in the world is no substitute for a good song or for real feeling. Music…
• 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…
• 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…
• Jimi Hendrix could play better than our best guys and he did it while he was dancing while being completely outrageous.
• Neil Young played Helpless, and by the time he finished, we were asking him if we could join his band
• Right away I thought I'd been hit by a hand grenade ... her (Joni Mitchells') voice, those words ... she nailed me to the back…
• 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…
• 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.
• 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…
• There are a lot of people who look great but can't sing.
• I produced her first album, and I was breaking up with her at the time. That was not comfortable. Falling in love with Joni Mitchell…
• I'm not givin' in an inch to fear.
• "It can't happen here" is number one on the list of famous last words.

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