"It can't happen here" is number one on the list of famous last w... by David Crosby

"It can't happen here" is number one on the list of famous last words.

David Crosby

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I gave up bread, and I've lost a bunch of weight, which is very g... by David Crosby

I gave up bread, and I've lost a bunch of weight, which is very good because I'm diabetic.

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I love Stephen Stills and Neil Young dearly. We talk all the time... by David Crosby

I love Stephen Stills and Neil Young dearly. We talk all the time. We see each other.

talk see time love

I come from a school of people, folk singers, and the tradition there is troubadours, and you're carrying a message. Now admittedly, our job is partly just to make you boogie, just make you want to dance. Part of our job is to take you on a little voyage, tell you a story.

you tradition dance people

I do see things that are funny on the net. I Googled myself the other day and found out that I was worth $250m, and that I was the highest-paid guy in show business! I wish so hard it was true. It is, of course, the complete opposite. I'm neither rich nor do I make a lot of money.

day myself business funny

I've met Bill Clinton, Obama a couple of times... I certainly didn't meet George Bush, and wouldn't want to.

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I get egotistical about things where I can do something well - for example, my singing. Most other things, I don't have the wherewithal to back it up.

back things singing i-can

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 the guy who was singing onstage. That was the first time I ever got on a stage in front of people.

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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. I felt a calling.

myself music business father

I don't collect the way other people do. Some people collect rare guitars, like, 'I have a '54 Strat worth $50,000.' And I don't collect the way Nash does. Nash has Duane Allman's guitar and Johnny Cash's guitar. I bought guitars because they sounded good. I played them, they sounded unbelievably good, and I couldn't resist.

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