David Crosby Net Worth

David Crosby's Quotes

• My songs emerge from my life, or wherever they do, unbidden and unplanned and completely on a schedule of their own. I can't legislate a song into being, it just will not happen for me.
• We don't take show business or the spotlight seriously.
• [observation, 2016, about whether he considers his legacy] No. I should, I guess, and I expect most people do, but I don't. I don't think about the past, I don't think about awards, I don't rest on my laurels, I don't think about any of that stuff. I think about what I'm supposed to do today and what I need to do tomorrow and what I may be able to do next week and what I need to do this coming year. My focus is almost entirely 100-per-cent forward.
• [on performing at Woodstock, 1969] Everybody was curious about us. We were the new kid on the block, it was our second public gig, nobody had ever seen us, everybody had heard the record, everybody wondered, 'What in the hell are they about?' So when it was rumored that we were about to go on, everybody came. Every band that played there, including all the ones that aren't in the movie, were all standing in an arc behind us, and that was intimidating, to say the least! I'm looking back at Hendrix and Robbie Robertson and Levon Helm and The Who and Janis and Sly and Grace and Paul, everybody that I knew and everybody I didn't know. We were so happy that it went down well that we could barely handle it.
• [on reconnecting with his son] Now, I'd known that he existed for 30 years and tortured myself about it: Well, he probably died in a snowstorm or in a dumpster, every terrible scenario. Then, he winds up looking, and it's me. He gets a hold of me. These meet-ups usually go very badly. One person or the other drags in baggage. We weren't good enough for you? Me and mom? Is that it? Whatever baggage you bring in, it usually destroys the chance of contact. And James came in and gave me a clean slate and let me earn my way into his life from a fresh beginning. That is a gift, a kindness, that you don't often see in this life. And the result? He's my best writing partner. We write all the time. I have to treasure that.

Interesting Facts about David Crosby

1. His late father was the esteemed cinematographer Floyd Crosby.
2. He was jailed for 3 months in 1985 on drug charges.
3. Had a liver transplant.
4. Was good friends with Larry Hagman, who also had a liver transplant.
5. Is the biological father of the two children of Melissa Etheridge and Julie Cypher.
6. Elected to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (as a member of The Byrds) in 1991.
7. Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997 (as a member of Crosby Stills & Nash).
8. Briefly replaced Neil Young in Buffalo Springfield. In fact, he appears with the band on both The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962) and at the Monterey Pop (1968) festival. This also help set in motion the formation of Crosby Stills & Nash and (later) Young in 1968.
9. Arrested on marijuana and gun possession charges at a Times Square hotel, after a hotel worker found a bag that had been left behind. The bag contained marijuana, a .45-calibre handgun and two knives. (March 2004)
10. He has a son, Django, with Jan Dance, born in July 1995 as well as two adult children from previous relationships.
11. Biological father of James Raymond.
12. Crosby Stills & Nash were awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for 6666 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.
13. In 1986 he turned himself in to the FBI and served eleven months in Texas jails, including four months in solitary confinement.
14. Released the album "Looking Forward" with Crosby Stills Nash & Young. The group toured North America in support of the album. [1999]
15. Release of the book, "Since Then: How I Survived Everything and Lived to Tell It" by David Crosby and Carl Gottieb. [2006]
16. One of his favorite signature guitar tunings is: E-B-D-G-A-D.
17. Raised actress Drew Barrymore after her release from rehab.
18. Thru his mother, he is a descendant of the Van Cortlandt family and thru his father of the Van Rensselaer family and from both of William Floyd, a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence.