David Crosby Quotes

I never decided to start singing, to be a singer.

Both singing and acting are so rewarding that I couldn't pick between the two.

Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.

I was always painting when I was a kid. But then when I handled a camera when I was 17, that was it for me. I loved photography. I would work 4 or 5 hours a day. It was like a calling.

In my case, the business chose me.

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.

I'm an accidental entrepreneur.

I started Softbank in 1981, a year and a half after I came back from the United States, after graduating from Berkeley. I wanted to start my own company when I came back to Japan.

I love singing as much as I love acting.

You can't study to be an entrepreneur. Sometimes, you just have to jump.

Going into business for yourself, becoming an entrepreneur, is the modern-day equivalent of pioneering on the old frontier.

Three components make an entrepreneur: the person, the idea and the resources to make it happen.

Yeah, handsome, great big guy, seven feet tall! Name is Rick Miller - Portland, Oregon. And he started a business. Of course you know it was in basketball. But it wasn't in basketball! I mean, I figured he had to be in sport, but he wasn't in sport.

It's when you take that first step opening a business or making an investment that it becomes real.

I always liked making things, and then I fell into animation. And then luck comes into it as well.

I've always wanted to be a professional golfer. So what if you always wanted to be an entrepreneur?

Nobody needs a movie to give them an idea.

Indeed, beauty is one of mankind's greatest needs; it is the root from which the branches of our peace and the fruits of our hope come forth. Beauty also reveals God because, like him, a work of beauty is pure gratuity; it calls us to freedom and draws us away from selfishness.

Writing is not a profession. It's a calling. It's almost holy.

I believe that producing pictures, as I do, is almost solely a question of wanting so very much to do it well.

How well I would write if I were not here!

That I happened to fall into a career that no other girls wanted isn't surprising to me. I wanted something that didn't exist, so I had to create it.

I always write and create. I'm never not creating. I'm always creating a show, every year, whether it gets picked up or not. I always sell a pilot or an idea. I like to be in control.

To be an artist, you need to exist in a world of silence.

All you need to paint is a few tools, a little instruction, and a vision in your mind.