David Crosby

“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.”

“When it all started, record companies - and there were many of them, and this was a good thing - were run by people who loved records, people like Ahmet Ertegun, who ran Atlantic Records, wh...”

“I come from a school of people, folk singers, and the tradition there is troubadours, and you're carrying a message. Now admittedly, our job is partly just to make you boogie, just make you...”

“When it all started, record companies - and there were many of them, and this was a good thing - were run by people who loved records, people like Ahmet Ertegun, who ran Atlantic Records, wh...”

“I do see things that are funny on the net. I Googled myself the other day and found out that I was worth $250m, and that I was the highest-paid guy in show business! I wish so hard it was tr...”

“I gave up bread, and I've lost a bunch of weight, which is very good because I'm diabetic.”

“Norah Jones is a breath of fresh air. Norah Jones can sing and play. She's got some talent. I was totally ecstatic that that girl got noticed, because she's wonderful.”

“When I was 11 years old, my parents wanted me to do something besides get in trouble. So they enrolled me in sailing classes at the Sea Shell Association in Santa Barbara, Calif. From the mo...”

“Being a hippy was the most natural thing in the world to me.”

“I'm an inveterate bookstore wanderer. I read constantly, so I love a good bookstore. I can't help it.”

“I can't legislate a song into being; it just will not happen for me.”

“I would do a Byrds tour or a Byrds record in a minute. I miss that band now. I've tried to convince Roger over and over to do it, but he's not interested. Music isn't something you can legis...”

“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 so...”

“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 so...”

“I love Stephen Stills and Neil Young dearly. We talk all the time. We see each other.”

“I've always been a very careful sailor. I know, me and being careful - doesn't really sound right, does it? But when I sail, I take it seriously and take along spares for everything. You hav...”

“I get egotistical about things where I can do something well - for example, my singing. Most other things, I don't have the wherewithal to back it up.”

“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 wonder...”