David Crosby Quotes

Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.

My songs can make you cry, take you by surprise at the same time, can make you dry your eyes with the same rhyme

Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out.

The strongest and sweetest songs yet remain to be sung.

I would love to hear someone write a song like 'He Stopped Loving Her Today' rather than 'You're hot. I'm hot. We're in a truck.' It's just mind-numbing to me.

I write poems for myself and I write poetry that gets torn apart and becomes songs. I have a lot of respect for words, the power of words.

Every song with lyrics is lyrical.

I just feel such freedom to do whatever. If a song's seven minutes or ten minutes long, then so be it - it's that long.

Shoob-be-doo-be-doo-da-day.

All great poetry is dipped in the dyes of the heart.

And hear the pleasant cockoo, loud and long - The simple bird that thinks two notes a song.

There are songs that come free from the blue-eyed grass, from the dust of a thousand country roads. This is one of them.

The songwriting style, to me, is superior. There was a certain amount of joy in it, no matter how sad the song is. You get joy in listening to these Buddy Holly or Roy Orbison sad lyrics. I'm attracted to songs that have balance between the darks and the lights and giving them all equal opportunity.

I want to write songs with complete sentences. I almos have this obsession with short-changing words. I would never be so pretentious to say that my lyrics are poetry. ... Poems are poems. Song lyrics are for songs.

Lyrical poetry is much the same an every age, as the songs of the nightingales in every spring-time.

I'm not writing just classic-sounding songs, but songs that come from experience.

Strumming my pain with his fingers, singing my life with his words, killing me softly with his song.

I think the more emotional you are, the better. I'm sort of writing [songs] as I go and I can never tell how it's going to be or how it's going to feel until I get into the studio. But I definitely think it will. I probably can't help but have the emotions in my voice.

Sing!" Grandpa Smedry yelled, his voice echoing down a hallway to the right."Sing!" If he breaks into song I think I might have to strangle myself... I thought, cringing.

Music was a thing of the soul — a rose-lipped shell that murmured of the eternal sea — a strange bird singing the songs of another shore.

It's just me and my guitar, and the rhythm's from there, and the poetry of life.

Why be in music, why write songs, if you can't use them to explore life or an idealized vision of life?

You have to be a poet to know how to write a song with lyrics.

There are no limitations with a song. To me a song is a little piece of art. It can be whatever you like it to be. You can write the simplest song, and that's lovely, or you can just write a song that is abstract art. ... A lot of my songs are very serious, I'm like dead serious about certain things and I feel that I'm writing about the world, through my own eyes. ... I have a love for simple basic song structure, although sometimes you'd never know it. ... Most of the songs I wrote at night. I would just wake in the middle of the night. That's when I found the space to write.

I've been thinking... Maybe you're a mockingbird... Mockingbirds imitate the songs of other birds... No, I've never heard of any copyright problems.