David Crosby Quotes
My songs emerge from my life, or wherever they do, unbidden and unplanned and completely on a schedule of their own.
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I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn't written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me.
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.
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I'm not the type of person to have a schadenfreude.
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Should the time come when the county family will be taken away, then the parish will feel for some time like a mouth from which a molar has been drawn - there will be a vacancy that will cause unrest and discomfort.
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Each dress symbolizes the age that it's appropriate for.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.
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Our relationship with Mexico in this regard is unique for us, and in many respects unique in the world.
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.
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I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.
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Cussing ain't for everybody.
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Humor is always more interesting when it comes from someone who's had more than, like, five experiences.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
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It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well.
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Their guilt made me eloquent because I was not its victim.
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I hate the unfairness of injustice. Anybody who thinks they are better than others or 'chosen' or feel they have an entitlement... be it through monarchy, government or money. I think we are all born the same. We are entitled to an equal shot at life.
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The major sweep of this book's living is too often marred by qualifying. It is hedged about with ifs and buts and if onlys and howevers, excuses for a life that is about to shut its covers for the last time and then crumple into dust in an unseen and never-to-be-remembered library.
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Chart positions aren't the be all and end all.
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'Fare well!' 'A whole world of pain is contained in these words.' How can it be contained in them? - It is bound up in them. The words are like an acorn from which an oak tree can grow.
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My songs emerge from my life, or wherever they do, unbidden and unplanned and completely on a schedule of their own.
