David Crosby
David Crosby
David Van Cortlandt Crosbyis an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. In addition to his solo career, he was a founding member of three bands: the Byrds; Crosby, Stills & Nash; and CPR...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth14 August 1941
CityLos Angeles, CA
CountryUnited States of America
children moving love-is
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.
ignorance greed
I don't like greed, I don't like ignorance. I really don't like anger. But I love love.
country believe usa
I believe in this country [the USA], I love this country, I believe in the idea of this country, and this country is an idea.
jobs school people
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.
song differences making-a-difference
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.
stupid long telling-the-truth
The stupid thing I incorrectly believed for a long time is that I believed for a long time that some politicians could sometimes tell the truth.
stars war loss
Alec Guinness classed up that movie [Star Wars]. Nobody else in that movie knew how to act. Nobody else had a clue of what they were doing. The young guy was a complete loss, absolutely couldn't act his way out of a bag, but Alec Guinness carried that movie. He was such a class act that it elevated the film to be a joy to watch.
stars war thinking
The movie I've seen the most times, boy, that's a tough one. It would have to be a toss-up between Apocalypse Now and the first Star Wars. I think the first Star Wars.
mother guy wish
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.
oligarchy communism dictatorship
There has never been a communism that worked. They were all dictatorships or oligarchies, every single one.
music asking band
Neil Young played Helpless, and by the time he finished, we were asking him if we could join his band
running song flew-up
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?
music writing years
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.
music baby writing
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.