David Crosby Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“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.”

“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. It rings a bell inside of us that elevates us as human beings, and I treasure that. I think it's one of the few great things about human beings.”

“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.”

“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 to get big.”

“I love voyaging - the longest has been 3,000 miles to Hawaii. I've also spent weeks all over the Caribbean.”

“I use a lot of tunings because I listen to a lot of jazz.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“I have a pretty clear picture of the whole weight of my life, and there are things that I've done that are good, and I'm proud of them. There are things that I'm really not proud of, and that they, you have to look at me with a perspective, and I try really hard to do that, to keep from thinking I'm cool and ever so smart.”