Stephen Stills Quotes

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 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 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.

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

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

One thing the blues ain't, is funny.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

There are three things men can do with women