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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.
David Crosby
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David Crosby
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: August 14
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LA
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I do like to smoke pot. I think it's good.
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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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It's hard to bullshit the ocean. It's not listening, you know what I mean.
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The easiest way to get laid by a girl, or get rid of her, is to write a song about her.
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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.
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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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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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There has never been a communism that worked. They were all dictatorships or oligarchies, every single one.
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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.
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While I was an addict, I didn't write anything. I didn't have the attention span or the will.
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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'm not givin' in an inch to fear.
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All wars would end immediately if the various chiefs of state dropped a little LSD.
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Chestnut brown canary, ruby throated sparrow, sing a song, don't be long, thrill me to the marrow.
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I want to look at myself the way I do on purpose, because if you aggrandize and try to look at yourself the way a fan does or the way a reviewer does or the way - God bless them, they all got a right to, everybody's got a right to an opinion about it.
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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 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.
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I'd have to say that Kenny White has earned a place among my favorite singer/songwritersand particularly, lyricists. As we say in the trade “he goes deep.” A true wordsmith AND musician who reveals a fine sense of humor, as well. Put on your headphones and listen carefully.
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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 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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