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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
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LA
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David Van Cortlandt Crosby
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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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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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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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I do like to smoke pot. I think it's good.
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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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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 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 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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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's hard to bullshit the ocean. It's not listening, you know what I mean.
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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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Don't waste the time. Time is the final currency, man. Not money, not power - it's time.
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All wars would end immediately if the various chiefs of state dropped a little LSD.
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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.
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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 don't like greed, I don't like ignorance. I really don't like anger. But I love love.
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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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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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