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 legislate into being. David Crosby Read Quote
I love voyaging – the longest has been 3,000 miles to Hawaii. I’ve also spent weeks all over the Caribbean. David Crosby Read Quote
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 have to be careful when you’re 1,500 miles from land. There’s no one you can call. You’re on your own. David Crosby Read Quote
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 moment I climbed into that 8-foot dinghy in 1952, I knew instinctively what to do and sensed I had done it before. David Crosby Read Quote
My songs emerge from my life, or wherever they do, unbidden and unplanned and completely on a schedule of their own. David Crosby Read Quote
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. I felt a calling. David Crosby Read Quote
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. David Crosby Read Quote
I gave up bread, and I’ve lost a bunch of weight, which is very good because I’m diabetic. David Crosby Read Quote
I love Stephen Stills and Neil Young dearly. We talk all the time. We see each other. David Crosby Read Quote
