Once you decide that it is the art that is important and not how popular and well received you are, you no longer have an albatross.
I spent my last year of high school in Latin America, and there's a edge of salsa under all of my rhythms.
An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist.
God forbid if David Crosby gets sick again and I can't tour anymore, or something happens where I can't get around, what am I going to live on? I'm going to be living on mechanicals. So I don't want to hear it.
I feel like I'm just learning how to play the guitar. I mean, really learning to play the guitar.
I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child.
There were times I thought I was going to turn to the blues, but then I'd hear better blues players.
I've just built a studio in my mama's old bedroom, which I thought was fitting; she died last year. We've recorded nine songs recorded in there already; we're sort of just chipping away.
Yeah; I'm a much better blues player than anybody knows, but being in the kind of group I'm in, we were always trying to make popular records.
There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.
The only albatross is the hurt you divine from what people say about your art.
That was when Neil discovered Jack Nietzsche. They went off and pretty much came up with that by themselves, but I thought it was a great song, and I was more than happy to do my harmony parts on it.
One thing the blues ain't, is funny.
If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with.