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“I'm not givin' in an inch to fear.”
― David Crosby, The Best of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young for Guitar: Includes Super TAB Notation

“It can't happen here" is number one on the list of famous last words.”
― David Crosby

“Music Is Love"

Everybody's sayin' music is love
Everybody's sayin' it's, you know it is
Every one yes every one
Everybody's sayin' music, music is love
Everybody's sayin' that music is love
Everybody's sayin' it's love

Everybody's sayin' that music is love, everybody's sayin' it's love
Everybody's sayin' that music is love, everybody's sayin' it's love
Everybody's sayin' that music is love, everybody's sayin' it's love
Everybody's sayin' that music is love, everybody's sayin' it's love
Everybody's sayin' that music is love
Everybody's sayin' it's love

Put on your colors and run come see
Everybody's sayin' that music's for free
Take off your clothes and lie in the sun
Everybody's sayin' that music's for fun


If I Could Only Remember My Name (1971)”
― David Crosby

“Speak out, you got to speak out against
The madness, you got to speak your mind,
If you dare”
― David Crosby

“Keep saying no to her,
Since she was a baby.
Keep saying no to her,
Not even maybe.

from "Why?" by the Byrds”
― David Crosby

“Well then, can I walk along beside you? I have come to lose the smog.
And I feel myself a cog in something turning.
And maybe it’s the time of year, yes, and maybe it’s the time of man.
And I don’t know who I am but life is for learning.
We are stardust, we are golden, we are billion year old carbon,
And we got to get ourselves back to the garden.”
― David Crosby

“NEIL YOUNG: If these guys want CSNY, then there should”
― David Crosby, Long Time Gone: the autobiography of David Crosby

“If We Quit Trying, It All Goes in the Sh-tter.”
― David Crosby

“John Coltrane, still playing at top intensity and volume, totally into it. He blew me out so bad I slid down the wall. The guy was still playing his solo. He hadn’t stopped. I don’t think he ever knew that I was in that room. He never saw that little ofay kid in the corner, you know, but he totally turned my mind to Jell-O at that point and that was my John Coltrane experience.”
― David Crosby, Long Time Gone: the autobiography of David Crosby

“after”
― David Crosby, Long Time Gone: the autobiography of David Crosby

“Asylum Records became a power base for David Geffen, with one of the best artist rosters in the business. It became the home label for what was to be known as the California sound. Elliot continued running the management company, most of whose artists recorded on Asylum, whose corporate philosophy was “benevolent protectionism.” The record company was different from other labels and was proud of its noninterference with the private and artistic lives of its artists, who in turn looked to David Geffen and company to insulate and protect them from the shocks and insults of commercially oriented sales and marketing types, aggressive promotion men, and demanding producers. The opening lineup at Asylum included Jackson Browne, the Eagles, and Joni Mitchell, with Linda Ronstadt joining shortly after. In 1974, the legendary Bob Dylan would leave Columbia and release two Top 10 albums with the company before returning to his original label. That didn’t matter to David. Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young were Atlantic artists and they were doing quite nicely, thank you very much. Besides,”
― David Crosby, Long Time Gone: the autobiography of David Crosby

“So indirectly you can say it was Miles Davis who got the Byrds started.”
― David Crosby, Long Time Gone: the autobiography of David Crosby

“endured—whatever it is—if we can be so strong after everything we’ve endured, it would be like fresh water running over the entire audience.”
― David Crosby, Long Time Gone: the autobiography of David Crosby