“OK, this one’s fairly simple,” Crosby responded. “You have a certain amount of time. You don’t know how much. Maybe I’ve got two weeks; maybe I’ve got two years — maybe I got 20 years! The question is not how much time you have, the question is what are you gonna do with that time. It seems to me that if you spend that time agonizing over the fact that you’re gonna die, you’re wasting that time.”
He added: “If you spend that time doing everything you can to be happy, to help other people, to create, to make new things — to make anything better for anybody — if you spend your time doing positive stuff like that, then the time that you have left — whatever amount it is — will be well-spent. And that, I think, is the key.”
I never got to see Crosby live but I had Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young albums in my room as a kid!