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While I was an addict, I didn't write anything. I didn't have the attention span or the will.
David Crosby
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David Crosby
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: August 14
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Film Producer
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Singer-Songwriter
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David Van Cortlandt Crosby
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It's hard to bullshit the ocean. It's not listening, you know what I mean.
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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.
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All wars would end immediately if the various chiefs of state dropped a little LSD.
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There has never been a communism that worked. They were all dictatorships or oligarchies, every single one.
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[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.
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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.
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It can't happen here is number one on the list of famous last words.
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I think ideas are still the most powerful things on the planet, and music is a great way to transmit them.
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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.
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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.
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Don't waste the time. Time is the final currency, man. Not money, not power - it's time.
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I don't like greed, I don't like ignorance. I really don't like anger. But I love love.
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I do like to smoke pot. I think it's good.
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I want to go to Africa and find a really great hotel with good food right above a water hole where I can sit, have breakfast, and just watch the elephants play in the water.
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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.
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When did I decide to go into business? Well, it wasn't a business, when I decided. It was simply a need to sing.
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