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When it all started, record companies - and there were many of them, and this was a good thing - were run by people who loved records, people like Ahmet Ertegun, who ran Atlantic Records, who were record collectors. They got in it because they loved music.

~David Crosby

Topics: Atlantic Because Collectors Companies Good Good Thing Got Like Loved Many Music People Ran Record Record Companies Records Run Started Them Thing Were Who A Good Thing

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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

Topics: Accountants Big Companies Definitely Get Lawyers Now Other Record Record Companies Related Run Shift Started Takes

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I'm an inveterate bookstore wanderer. I read constantly, so I love a good bookstore. I can't help it.

~David Crosby

Topics: Bookstore Constantly Good Help Inveterate Love Read Wanderer I Love

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I gave up bread, and I've lost a bunch of weight, which is very good because I'm diabetic.

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I can't legislate a song into being; it just will not happen for me.

~David Crosby

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

~David Crosby

Topics: Emerge Life My Life Own Schedule Songs Wherever

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I love Stephen Stills and Neil Young dearly. We talk all the time. We see each other.

~David Crosby

Topics: Dearly Each Love Neil Neil Young Other See Talk Time Young I Love

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There are a lot of people who look great but can't sing.

~David Crosby

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I have a pretty clear picture of the whole weight of my life, and there are things that I've done that are good, and I'm proud of them. There are things that I'm really not proud of, and that they, you have to look at me with a perspective, and I try really hard to do that, to keep from thinking I'm cool and ever so smart.

~David Crosby

Topics: Clear Cool Done Ever Good Hard Keep Life Look Me My Life Perspective Picture Pretty Proud Really Smart Them Things Thinking Try Weight Whole You

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I come from a school of people, folk singers, and the tradition there is troubadours, and you're carrying a message. Now admittedly, our job is partly just to make you boogie, just make you want to dance. Part of our job is to take you on a little voyage, tell you a story.

~David Crosby

Topics: Admittedly Carrying Come Dance Folk Job Just Little Make Message Now Our Part Partly People School Singers Story Take Tell Tradition Voyage Want You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: August 14th, 1941

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