There were times I thought I was going to turn to the blues, but then I’d hear better blues players. – 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
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
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. – Stephen Stills
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
There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature. – Stephen Stills
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. – Stephen Stills
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. – Stephen Stills
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. – Stephen Stills
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. – Stephen Stills
I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that’s what white college kids liked when I was a child. – 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. – 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 feel like I’m just learning how to play the guitar. I mean, really learning to play the guitar. – Stephen Stills
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. – 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
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
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
An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist. – Stephen Stills
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
