Stephen Stills Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Love the one you're with.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

There are three things men can do with women

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.

One thing the blues ain't, is funny.

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

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

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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