David Crosby
David Crosby
David Van Cortlandt Crosbyis an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. In addition to his solo career, he was a founding member of three bands: the Byrds; Crosby, Stills & Nash; and CPR...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth14 August 1941
CityLos Angeles, CA
CountryUnited States of America
writing attention drunkenness
While I was an addict, I didn't write anything. I didn't have the attention span or the will.
girl song writing
The easiest way to get laid by a girl, or get rid of her, is to write a song about her.
song real writing
The fact is that all the recording science and technology in the world is no substitute for a good song or for real feeling. Music is about feeling and if there isn't any genuine feeling, if the song isn't about anything that anyone gives a damn about, there's nothing you can do. All the technique that exists won't make it any good; it'll just make it technological. All the production values you add won't do anything except make it glossy.
song father writing
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.
music writing years
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.
music baby writing
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.
music writing people
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.
needs wells decided
When did I decide to go into business? Well, it wasn't a business, when I decided. It was simply a need to sing.
song schedules
My songs emerge from my life, or wherever they do, unbidden and unplanned and completely on a schedule of their own.
song i-can happens
I can't legislate a song into being; it just will not happen for me.
bags littles stuff
CSNY is a little like putting seven pounds of stuff in a three pound bag.
thinking pot smoke
I do like to smoke pot. I think it's good.
war littles lsd
All wars would end immediately if the various chiefs of state dropped a little LSD.
father home sailing
Sailing became one of the mainstreams of my life. I suppose my father was an influence. I remember seeing a photo of him at home sailing a big boat to Bermuda in his 20s. I still have it.