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Top 30 David Crosby Quotes (2025 Update)

David Crosby Quote: “Don’t waste the time. Time is the final currency, man. Not money, not power – it’s time.”

1. “Don’t waste the time. Time is the final currency, man. Not money, not power – it’s time.”

— David Crosby

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David Crosby Quote: “I don’t like greed, I don’t like ignorance. I really don’t like anger. But I love love.”

2. “I don’t like greed, I don’t like ignorance. I really don’t like anger. But I love love.”

— David Crosby

David Crosby Quote: “There has never been a communism that worked. They were all dictatorships or oligarchies, every single one.”

3. “There has never been a communism that worked. They were all dictatorships or oligarchies, every single one.”

— David Crosby

David Crosby Quote: “All wars would end immediately if the various chiefs of state dropped a little LSD.”

4. “All wars would end immediately if the various chiefs of state dropped a little LSD.”

— David Crosby

David Crosby Quote: “Neil Young played Helpless, and by the time he finished, we were asking him if we could join his band.”

5. “Neil Young played Helpless, and by the time he finished, we were asking him if we could join his band.”

— David Crosby

David Crosby Quote: “I don’t think being angry is useful or healthy, and usually when I get angry, my brain just goes right out the window. Boom, as soon as the adrenaline hits, instant stupid. Just add water and mix.”

6. “I don’t think being angry is useful or healthy, and usually when I get angry, my brain just goes right out the window. Boom, as soon as the adrenaline hits, instant stupid. Just add water and mix.”

— David Crosby

David Crosby Quote: “CSNY is a little like putting seven pounds of stuff in a three pound bag.”

7. “CSNY is a little like putting seven pounds of stuff in a three pound bag.”

— David Crosby

David Crosby Quote: “I think ideas are still the most powerful things on the planet, and music is a great way to transmit them.”

8. “I think ideas are still the most powerful things on the planet, and music is a great way to transmit them.”

— David Crosby

David Crosby Quote: “I produced her first album, and I was breaking up with her at the time. That was not comfortable. Falling in love with Joni Mitchell is a bit like falling into a cement mixer!”

9. “I produced her first album, and I was breaking up with her at the time. That was not comfortable. Falling in love with Joni Mitchell is a bit like falling into a cement mixer!”

— David Crosby

David Crosby Quote: “I am having so much fun performing, I feel almost guilty. I think, my God, I hope no one comes and busts me for this.”

10. “I am having so much fun performing, I feel almost guilty. I think, my God, I hope no one comes and busts me for this.”

— David Crosby

David Crosby Quote: “Jimi Hendrix could play better than our best guys and he did it while he was dancing while being completely outrageous.”

11. “Jimi Hendrix could play better than our best guys and he did it while he was dancing while being completely outrageous.”

— David Crosby

David Crosby Quote: “My songs emerge from my life, or wherever they do, unbidden and unplanned and completely on a schedule of their own.”

12. “My songs emerge from my life, or wherever they do, unbidden and unplanned and completely on a schedule of their own.”

— David Crosby

David Crosby Quote: “The easiest way to get laid by a girl, or get rid of her, is to write a song about her.”

13. “The easiest way to get laid by a girl, or get rid of her, is to write a song about her.”

— David Crosby

David Crosby 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.”

14. “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

David Crosby Quote: “I want to look at myself the way I do on purpose, because if you aggrandize and try to look at yourself the way a fan does or the way a reviewer does or the way – God bless them, they all got a right to, everybody’s got a right to an opinion about it.”

15. “I want to look at myself the way I do on purpose, because if you aggrandize and try to look at yourself the way a fan does or the way a reviewer does or the way – God bless them, they all got a right to, everybody’s got a right to an opinion about it.”

— David Crosby

David Crosby Quote: “I want to go to Africa and find a really great hotel with good food right above a water hole where I can sit, have breakfast, and just watch the elephants play in the water.”

16. “I want to go to Africa and find a really great hotel with good food right above a water hole where I can sit, have breakfast, and just watch the elephants play in the water.”

— David Crosby

David Crosby Quote: “Sailing became one of the mainstreams of my life. I suppose my father was an influence. I remember seeing a photo of him at home sailing a big boat to Bermuda in his 20s. I still have it.”

17. “Sailing became one of the mainstreams of my life. I suppose my father was an influence. I remember seeing a photo of him at home sailing a big boat to Bermuda in his 20s. I still have it.”

— David Crosby

David Crosby Quote: “There are a lot of people who look great but can’t sing.”

18. “There are a lot of people who look great but can’t sing.”

— David Crosby

David Crosby Quote: “The people who run record companies now wouldn’t know a song if it flew up their nose and died. They haven’t a clue, and they don’t care. You tell them that, and they go, Yeah? So, your point is?”

19. “The people who run record companies now wouldn’t know a song if it flew up their nose and died. They haven’t a clue, and they don’t care. You tell them that, and they go, Yeah? So, your point is?”

— David Crosby

David Crosby Quote: “I do like to smoke pot. I think it’s good.”

20. “I do like to smoke pot. I think it’s good.”

— David Crosby

David Crosby Quote: “Sometimes the entire thing comes out in one burst. Sometimes you hack away at a thing for years before you get something that satisfies you.”

21. “Sometimes the entire thing comes out in one burst. Sometimes you hack away at a thing for years before you get something that satisfies you.”

— David Crosby

David Crosby Quote: “The stupid thing I incorrectly believed for a long time is that I believed for a long time that some politicians could sometimes tell the truth.”

22. “The stupid thing I incorrectly believed for a long time is that I believed for a long time that some politicians could sometimes tell the truth.”

— David Crosby

David Crosby Quote: “The movie I’ve seen the most times, boy, that’s a tough one. It would have to be a toss-up between Apocalypse Now and the first Star Wars. I think the first Star Wars.”

23. “The movie I’ve seen the most times, boy, that’s a tough one. It would have to be a toss-up between Apocalypse Now and the first Star Wars. I think the first Star Wars.”

— David Crosby

David Crosby Quote: “Now record companies are run by lawyers and accountants. The shift from the one to the other was definitely related to when the takes started to get big.”

24. “Now record companies are run by lawyers and accountants. The shift from the one to the other was definitely related to when the takes started to get big.”

— David Crosby

David Crosby 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.”

25. “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.”

— David Crosby

David Crosby Quote: “I write very sporadically. I write sometimes three things in a week and then nothing for a year. I make a space for it but I don’t push it. They just come and they come.”

26. “I write very sporadically. I write sometimes three things in a week and then nothing for a year. I make a space for it but I don’t push it. They just come and they come.”

— David Crosby

David Crosby Quote: “While I was an addict, I didn’t write anything. I didn’t have the attention span or the will.”

27. “While I was an addict, I didn’t write anything. I didn’t have the attention span or the will.”

— David Crosby

David Crosby Quote: “When did I decide to go into business? Well, it wasn’t a business, when I decided. It was simply a need to sing.”

28. “When did I decide to go into business? Well, it wasn’t a business, when I decided. It was simply a need to sing.”

— David Crosby

David Crosby Quote: “I can’t legislate a song into being; it just will not happen for me.”

29. “I can’t legislate a song into being; it just will not happen for me.”

— David Crosby

David Crosby Quote: “I think music is a lifting force, I think love is the lifting force in the human condition. I think you see someone loving on their child, and it moves you, and you can’t help it.”

30. “I think music is a lifting force, I think love is the lifting force in the human condition. I think you see someone loving on their child, and it moves you, and you can’t help it.”

— David Crosby

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