David Crosby is Star Struck | StarTalk

so we established that there’s an entire
geek side to David Crosby that I never
knew until that moment so I wanted to
know was he able did he care did he want
to fold this geek ax tude into his music
so I asked what has his passion for
science inspired him as a songwriter
let’s check it out
I wrote a song with Paul Kantner from
Jefferson Airplane called have you seen
the stars tonight I you know you want to
talk about it and you want to see I want
to go out to the Stars
it’s humanity’s destiny but in order to
communicate it I looked at it through
the eyes of somebody who was there on a
ship saying hey do you want to go up on
a deck and look at the stars with me
tonight you know and talk about their
feelings from a human point of view it’s
a tough thing you want to look at you
know the the world the universe out
there through someone’s eyes whose
feeling something about it I think
otherwise you’re not communicating with
your other wife suffer to communicate
yeah yeah and so so you didn’t done this
a few times why not more or some other
secret life not an easy thing to do it’s
easier to write about love because we
all experience it and because it has
such a wide spectrum of you know
thinking I’ve never thought about it but
that is now so obvious the thing now
that you say it that way it’s because we
all feel it or want to feel it yeah that
it always shows up in these songwriters
whereas the wonder for the universe
happens to a person only when they get
out on a clear night in a place like the
high desert or out on the ocean where
it’s where I’ve seen it I and they look
up and all of a sudden it comes on them
and they realize wait a minute I’m
standing on the side of a starry mudball
outdoors during their starstruck and
there’s a reason there’s a name for it
because at that moment they’re like me
and you and that’s the moment I want to
try to communicate and I used that image
when I can but it’s a much rarer feeling