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Music Quotes by David Crosby
- 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 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- When it all started, record companies - and there were many of them, and this was a good thing - were run by people who…
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