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
-
David knew everyone because he's such a social butterfly.
-
Fear is the lock and laughter the key to your heart.
-
One thing the blues ain't, is funny.
-
The only albatross is the hurt you divine from what people say about your art
-
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.
-
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
-
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 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
-
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 have my ship, and all her flags are a-flying. She is all that I have left, and music is her name.
-
I spent my last year of high school in Latin America, and there's a edge of salsa under all of my rhythms
-
There were times I thought I was going to turn to the blues, but then I'd hear better blues players.
-
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
-
There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.
-
But it's as big as the promise, the promise of a coming day.
-
I feel like I'm just learning how to play the guitar. I mean, really learning to play the guitar
-
Speak out. You've got to speak out against the madness
-
Love the one you're with.
-
Find the cost of freedom, buried in the ground Mother earth will swallow you Lay your body down.
-
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 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.
-
An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist