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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.
David Crosby
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David Crosby
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: August 14
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All wars would end immediately if the various chiefs of state dropped a little LSD.
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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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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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Chestnut brown canary, ruby throated sparrow, sing a song, don't be long, thrill me to the marrow.
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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 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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Don't waste the time. Time is the final currency, man. Not money, not power - it's time.
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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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[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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There has never been a communism that worked. They were all dictatorships or oligarchies, every single one.
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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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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 think ideas are still the most powerful things on the planet, and music is a great way to transmit them.
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