David Crosby Quotes

I couldn't believe how good Jimi Hendrix was It was a really difficult thing for me to deal with, but I just had to surrender and say, 'This is fantastic.'

I refuse to dance. And I can't dance anyway. I'm not in a band for that.

We could give 'Take That' a run for their money.

Jimi Hendrix is a classic example of a player in which everything he did, it was all in his hands.

Jimi Hendrix was the most exciting guitarist I've ever heard.

Joao Gilberto on guitar could read a newspaper and sound good.

Lenny Breau is one of the true geniuses of the guitar. I suppose he is a musician's musician. His knowledge of the instrument and the music is so vast, and I think that's what knocks people out about him. But he's such a tasty player too. I think if Chopin had played guitar, he would have sounded like Lenny Breau.

Lenny Breau was a genius - inspired and really loose. I loved how he used the guitar as an extension of his inner freedom, because, obviously, on the outside there were a lot of trainwrecks going on. But when you listen to him play, you hear what kind of guy he really is

From my debut until now, I've always wanted to sing and dance.

I've never taken a lesson in my life, and I can play every instrument there is. I play by ear, but I can fool anybody into thinking I went to some conservatory of music.

I want to be in a musical. I love music, and just to be able to mash the music and the acting together, it would be just incredible.

I see myself as an entertainer.

I think people need to see Prince live to really understand how remarkable he is.

I am an interpreter of music rather than a composer of it.

I'm not really an actress type. I'm an entertainer.

I'm a performer. I've tried everything there is.

I have never been one for musicians. I know girls are supposed to go crazy for frontmen who close their eyes when they sing and nod their heads when the drums kick in, but I'm like Shania Twain with that stuff: That don't impress me much. I'll take wit and brains over the ability to carry a tune any day.

I love dancing, but I'm not that good of a singer. I sang in punk rock bands in high school and college and stuff, but that mostly involved lots of screaming.

I worked with Carl Perkins on a number of shows. Live shows. He just showed up and played. He just killed. Killed! Man... he was amazing!

Anyone who can do the splits and come back up on the backbeat, as James Brown and Prince can, has my eternal respect. Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.

Hendrix was a perfect guitarist. And that's all I wanted to do as a kid. Play a guitar properly and jump around.

Jimi Hendrix was the master of live stuff. He was my inspiration to do the yo-yo, everything he did on stage was awesome.

I'm an entertainer - that's what I do.

I'm glad that it worked out that I get to act and play music and perform.

I am an entertainer.