Stephen Stills Quotes

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Stephen Stills

Profession : Musician

Birth : January 3, 1945

One thing the blues ain't, is funny.

Stephen Stills

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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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

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A commercial is a commercial.

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

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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