Stephen Stills's Quotes

One thing the blues ain't, is funny.

There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.

A commercial is a commercial.

After about a year or so, I was in L.A.; I'd decided to try to get a band together out there.

An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist.

David knew everyone because he's such a social butterfly.

I feel like I'm just learning how to play the guitar. I mean, really learning to play the guitar.

I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child.

I spent my last year of high school in Latin America, and there's a edge of salsa under all of my rhythms.

If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with.

Once you decide that it is the art that is important and not how popular and well received you are, you no longer have an albatross.

The only albatross is the hurt you divine from what people say about your art.

There were times I thought I was going to turn to the blues, but then I'd hear better blues players.

Yeah; I'm a much better blues player than anybody knows, but being in the kind of group I'm in, we were always trying to make popular records.

God forbid if David Crosby gets sick again and I can't tour anymore, or something happens where I can't get around, what am I going to live on? I'm going to be living on mechanicals. So I don't want to hear it.

I've just built a studio in my mama's old bedroom, which I thought was fitting; she died last year. We've recorded nine songs recorded in there already; we're sort of just chipping away.

Sometimes I get a little drunk, sometimes I get a little out of it, sometimes I get out of tune onstage, but that's something that shouldn't be dissected.

That was when Neil discovered Jack Nietzsche. They went off and pretty much came up with that by themselves, but I thought it was a great song, and I was more than happy to do my harmony parts on it.