David Crosby Quotes

Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.

I turned everybody on so, psychologically, I guess I was pushing the boundaries creativity.

I don't know what makes a guy want to write songs and sing, but if you've got a message, you want to get it across. When I come up with an idea about the way I feel, I can really state it strongly in a song.

AWe musicians can influence, and are responsible to influence, human hearts when we perform. We have to touch them.

Whether it's an inspiring song or whether it's an entertaining song - whatever it might be about it - I just want people to feel the emotion that I put into it because I think emotion... is everything.

If you can write a song that makes people have emotions and show their feelings, that's a powerful thing and a beautiful thing.

A lot of my songs are inspired by a muse of some sort, whether she's real or not.

I'm always on the prowl for the kinds of recordings that can inspire and potentially make a difference.

Words and ideas can change or influence the mind just like music can - yes, like a spell. Regarding the effect of my "spells" I think it varies; my music communicates with some, and I think it has had a positive influence on the minds of those who like it. I hope it helped them see the world from a different perspective.

Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.

Music gives the soul this inner self-expression, a voice. It gives the soul a sound, the sound of the Muse.

I know when somebody's heard my music. I can hear it in their music.

I'm always looking for inspiration.

Everything was a song. Every conversation, every personal hurt, every observance of people in stress, happiness and love... if you could feel it, I could feel it. And I could write a song about it.

I grew up in a household that had its roots in church and community and culture and poetry and song and in the arts. Those aspects certainly shaped what I do.

The coming of the kids hasn't come out in my art yet.

What is certain is that singing is not merely modulating a song by means of the voice: we sing and we celebrate the beauty that we can grow and live every day. If you want to sing and give emotions to those who are listening, you must have something to tell through your singing; you have to use singing like an instrument to tell something.

There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.

I think good music comes from the heart. That's my belief.

Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing; joy, rage, fear; triumph, yearning and confusion.

The idea is in my head to put it down is nothing.

But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.

All I want a song to do is just to kind of present an idea.

Music is for dreamers, I think.

I have a curiosity that compels me to find ways to make music that are fresh and new.