David Crosby:The trick is that when the music comes by your house, you have to have the lights on and the doors open.

“Here’s the thing — we’re descended, singer-songwriters, from troubadours in the Middle Ages,” Mr. Crosby told the San Luis Obispo Tribune in 2017. “Part of the job should just be to boogie, make you want to dance. Part of the job should be to take you on little emotional voyages that make you feel stuff. And part of the job should be for us to be the town criers.”

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Realizing that “the only thing I can do now is use the talent I was given,” he sought to make up for his lost years. It didn’t matter that he no longer topped the charts.

“I’m not interested in what I already did. It’s already done,” he told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in 2015. “The trick is that when the music comes by your house, you have to have the lights on and the doors open.”

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