“[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.” PeopleMenStarsCallingTricksOver ItBullsStraws Author:David Crosby
“I come from a school of people, folk singers, and the tradition there is troubadours, and you're carrying a message. 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.But part of our job is to communicate the way a town crier did: It's 12:00 and all is well, or it's 11:30 and the whole Congress is sold. It's part of the job.” PeopleWayWantWellsLittlesWholeStoriesSchoolJobsMessagesTraditionTownsCongressFolksCommunicateSingersVoyagesBoogieTroubadours Author:David Crosby
“After all the time we [people] spent saying look, war is a stupid way to solve stuff - oh, you're not trying to solve stuff. You're trying to make money.” PeopleWayTryingLooksWarStuffStupidSolveMaking Money Author:David Crosby
“Largely I write from life. ... I write from what happens to me. Mostly about love. People notice the other stuff more but I write mostly about love.” PeopleWritingHappensStuffMusic Author:David Crosby
“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.” PeopleWorldYearsStillsLastsFacesSongWrittenTruth IsCostNewsSingingSongwritingSongwritersSchedulesAccusedWhalesSinger SongwritersWriting SongsStance Author:David Crosby
“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.” PeopleKnowsWritingWould BeSongActorsFatherFeltSingingFolksAffinityFolk MusicMovie BusinessSinging Songs Author:David Crosby
“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?” PeopleIfsKnowsCareRunningSongCompanyRecordsHavensDiedYeahDon't CareNosesClueFlewRecord CompaniesFlew Up Author:David Crosby
“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.” PeopleThinkingWayImportantBigsWonderfulImportant ThingsBangsDescribingWoodstock Author:David Crosby
