I don't like greed, I don't like ignorance. I really don't like anger. But I love love. David Crosby More Quotes by David Crosby More Quotes From David Crosby The easiest way to get laid by a girl, or get rid of her, is to write a song about her. David Crosby girl writing song 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 music writing baby 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 I don't push it. They just come and they come. David Crosby music writing years Chestnut brown canary, ruby throated sparrow, sing a song, don't be long, thrill me to the marrow. David Crosby poetry song long I think music is a lifting force, I think love is the lifting force in the human condition. I think you see someone loving on their child, and it moves you, and you can't help it. David Crosby love-is children moving [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 stars men people 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 important people thinking 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. National Enquirer-type stuff. They just make it up. David Crosby guy mother wish 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 flew-up running song Elections aren't supposed to be for sale... it's that simple. David Crosby supposed-to-be election simple 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. David Crosby fans doe trying 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 It's Worth". These came right out of the news. People have accused us of taking stances and the truth is we don't. David Crosby whales song years 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 little tape and work on it and work on it until you got it the way you want it. And then you can put it on the net. And if it's any damn good somebody's gonna notice. That's happened over and over again now. To me that's good. That's good access that isn't controlled by the companies. I think that's a great thing. David Crosby music mean thinking CSNY is a little like putting seven pounds of stuff in a three pound bag. David Crosby bags three littles I do like to smoke pot. I think it's good. David Crosby smoke pot thinking When did I decide to go into business? Well, it wasn't a business, when I decided. It was simply a need to sing. David Crosby decided wells needs Generally we don't really consciously do it as a purpose-driven thing. ... It's really just a response to life. David Crosby driven music purpose 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 know, singing folk music and then, later, singing songs that I started to write myself, I felt more than an affinity for it. David Crosby writing song father I love music. I love making songs. I feel like I've been given a path where I can contribute, where I can protest if somebody does something really obviously wrong or inhuman right in front of me, where I can make a difference. Where I can most especially elevate, make you happy, elevate the condition, elevate the thing. David Crosby making-a-difference differences song Jimi Hendrix could play better than our best guys and he did it while he was dancing while being completely outrageous. David Crosby music dancing play
