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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.

David Crosby

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David Crosby
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: August 14
Actor
Film Producer
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Singer-Songwriter
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LA
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David Van Cortlandt Crosby
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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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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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Chestnut brown canary, ruby throated sparrow, sing a song, don't be long, thrill me to the marrow.
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I'm not givin' in an inch to fear.
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I do like to smoke pot. I think it's good.
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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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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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It can't happen here is number one on the list of famous last words.
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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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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.
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Neil Young played Helpless, and by the time he finished, we were asking him if we could join his band
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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