Top 50 Quotes & Sayings by Stephen Stills

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American musician Stephen Stills.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Stephen Arthur Stills is an American musician, singer and songwriter best known for his work with Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. As both a solo act and member of two successful bands, Stills has combined record sales of over 35 million albums. He was ranked number 28 in Rolling Stone's 2003 list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" and number 47 in the 2011 list. Stills became the first person to be inducted twice with his groups on the same night into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. According to Neil Young, "Stephen is a genius."

American - Musician | Born: January 3, 1945

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One thing the blues ain't, is funny.

Stephen Stills

You slow down when you get older.

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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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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.

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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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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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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.

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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 love Obama's calm and dignity. A lot of people confuse that with being aloof, but I know people that have held that job. It's a 24-hour barrage of information.

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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.

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A commercial is a commercial.

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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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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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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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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.

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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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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.

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

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

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

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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.

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

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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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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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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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Love the one you're with.

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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

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

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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.

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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.

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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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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

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

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

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

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There are three things men can do with women

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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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Stephen Stills

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