Stephen Stills Quotes
"One thing the blues ain't, is funny."
- Stephen Stills
(Related: Funny)
"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."
- Stephen Stills
"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."
- Stephen Stills
(Related: Thought, Harmony, Pretty, Song)
"The only albatross is the hurt you divine from what people say about your art."
- Stephen Stills
(Related: Art, People, Hurt)
"There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature."
- Stephen Stills
(Related: Love, Men, Literature)
"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."
- Stephen Stills
(Related: Being, Popular, Trying)
"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."
- Stephen Stills
(Related: Thought, Old, Songs)
"There were times I thought I was going to turn to the blues, but then I'd hear better blues players."
- Stephen Stills
(Related: Thought)
"I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child."
- Stephen Stills
(Related: Music, Accident, College, Folk, Kids)
"I feel like I'm just learning how to play the guitar. I mean, really learning to play the guitar."
- Stephen Stills
(Related: Guitar, Learning, Play)
"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."
- Stephen Stills
(Related: God, Living, Want)
"David knew everyone because he's such a social butterfly."
- Stephen Stills
"An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist."
- Stephen Stills
(Related: Art, People, Artist, Giving)
"After about a year or so, I was in L.A.; I'd decided to try to get a band together out there."
- Stephen Stills
"A commercial is a commercial."
- Stephen Stills
"I spent my last year of high school in Latin America, and there's a edge of salsa under all of my rhythms."
- Stephen Stills
(Related: America, School)
"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."
- Stephen Stills
(Related: Art, Popular)