Stephen Stills Quotes

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.

But it’s as big as the promise, the promise of a coming day.

I much prefer the road. My thing is getting live in front of people. There is a sterile environment to a studio that doesnt make me let go.

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

One thing the blues ain’t, is funny.

I remember that first week at the Whisky and the gigs we (The Buffalo Springfield) did with the Byrds, We could really smoke ! That band never got on record as bad, and as hard as we were. Live we sounded like the Rolling Stones.

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.

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.

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

Speak out. You’ve got to speak out against the madness

Love the one you’re with.

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

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

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

A commercial is a commercial.

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

I’ve learned you can’t write on a computer on a bus. It jiggles too much, especially an Apple. The keyboard jiggles around too much, and there are too many typos.

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

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

There are three things men can do with women

Find the cost of freedom, buried in the ground
Mother earth will swallow you
Lay your body down.

I have my ship, and all her flags are a-flying. She is all that I have left, and music is her name.

We moved around so much when I was a kid, the place I call home is New Orleans because at least I can remember the names of some of the streets there.

I much prefer the road. My thing is getting live in front of people. There is a sterile environment to a studio that doesn’t make me let go.

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.

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.

I don’t set out to write a political song. I am not one of those that feels compelled to write about what’s going on.

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

Fear is the lock and laughter the key to your heart.

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

I think that President Obama has done the best he possibly could during the first term considering that his opposition was willing to do whatever necessary to destroy him, even if it meant damaging the country in the process.

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

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.

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

It’s getting to the point where I am no fun anymore, I am sorry. / Sometimes it hurts so badly I must cry out loud, ‘ I am lonely.’ / I am yours, you are mine, you are what you are, you make it hard.

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

I detest talking about myself. There is a reason why people pick up an instrument and put it between themselves and the rest of the world.

You slow down when you get older.

After getting driven into the ground by the policies of the Bush administration, the economy is creeping up. It’s doing that because people are sticking their shoulders to the wheel. Community banks are doing a lot of lending to small businesses and keeping them going.

Language is an inadequate form of communication. If you’ve picked up an instrument, it’s because you don’t feel you are communicating sufficiently.

Neil Young and Barry Friedman had stolen a Buffalo Springfield sign off the steamroller for Barrys house. They put it up. We all looked at it on the wall and a light went off. That’s how we came up with the name

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

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

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.

Unlike President Obama, Mitt Romney has been inside the bubble all his life. He has no idea what’s going on here. He has no idea how destructive Bush’s eight years were to this country.

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

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