Latest David Crosby Quotes from Interviews

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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.

  David Crosby

  Mother, Guy, Wish

  "David Crosby answers our 11 questions". Interview with Corbin Reif, music.avclub.com. March 18, 2016.

• The stupid thing I incorrectly believed for a long time is that I believed for a long time that some politicians could sometimes tell the truth.

  David Crosby

  Stupid, Long, Sometimes

  Source: www.avclub.com

• The movie I've seen the most times, boy, that's a tough one. It would have to be a toss-up between Apocalypse Now and the first Star Wars. I think the first Star Wars.

  David Crosby

  Stars, War, Thinking

  "David Crosby answers our 11 questions". Interview with Corbin Reif, www.avclub.com. March 18, 2016.

• 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.

  David Crosby

  Stars, War, Loss

  Source: www.avclub.com

• 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.

  David Crosby

  Elephants, Play, Water

  "David Crosby answers our 11 questions". Interview with Corbin Reiff, music.avclub.com. March 18, 2016.

• Don't waste the time. Time is the final currency, man. Not money, not power - it's time.

  David Crosby

  Men, Finals, Waste

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I've been given a gift [musical talent] - don't misuse it. I spent a lot of time just wasting that talent, not treasuring it, not valuing it, not respecting it, just taking it for granted. That was a hard lesson to learn. It doesn't come for free. Don't do that. Treasure it, respect it, treat it as a responsibility that you've been given, and enjoy the hell out of it.

  David Crosby

  Responsibility, Musical, Treasure

  Source: www.pbs.org

• 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.

  David Crosby

  Song, Differences, Making A Difference

  Source: www.pbs.org

• 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.

  David Crosby

  Stupid, War, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I believe in this country [the USA], I love this country, I believe in the idea of this country, and this country is an idea.

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  Country, Believe, Ideas

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I think ideas are still the most powerful things on the planet, and music is a great way to transmit them.

  David Crosby

  Powerful, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I don't like greed, I don't like ignorance. I really don't like anger. But I love love.

  David Crosby

  Ignorance, Greed

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I don't think being angry is useful or healthy, and usually when I get angry, my brain just goes right out the window. Boom, as soon as the adrenaline hits, instant stupid. Just add water and mix.

  David Crosby

  Stupid, Thinking, Water

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I come from a school of people, folk singers, and the tradition there is troubadours, and you're carrying a message. Admittedly, our job is partly just to make you boogie, just make you want to dance. Part of our job is to take you on a little voyage, tell you a story.But part of our job is to communicate the way a town crier did: It's 12:00 and all is well, or it's 11:30 and the whole Congress is sold. It's part of the job.

  David Crosby

  Jobs, School, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

• 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.

  David Crosby

  Children, Moving, Love Is

  Source: www.pbs.org

• 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.

  David Crosby

  Smart, Thinking, Perspective

  Source: www.pbs.org

• [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

  Stars, Men, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

• 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.

  David Crosby

  Trying, Fans, Doe

  Source: www.pbs.org

• There has never been a communism that worked. They were all dictatorships or oligarchies, every single one.

  David Crosby

  Oligarchy, Communism, Dictatorship

  Source: www.pbs.org