Stephen Stills Quotes (24 Quotes)

It's called 'Cry Traitor,' which I may just let the Internet take because it fits with the theme of the tour. 'So you wanna cry traitor every time we disagree.' That's what they tend to do.

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

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.

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

The phone rings in the studio. It says, 'Neil Young for Stephen ... Hi, I'm in San Luis Obispo in Black Beauty (Young's '47 Buick), and I'll be there in about four hours.

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.

I would make the mistake of playing songs for the other guys, and they would pick the three or four best songs and say, 'Hey, lets make a new CSN or CSNY album' Five projects later, I finally said, 'No, you cant hear it,'

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

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.

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.

The relationships within the band have grown much more friendly and forgiving, and the sands of time have rounded off a few corners, shall we say.

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

('Man Alive') was specifically designed to be able to play live. I wanted lots of air. It'll be the easiest DVD because a lot of the vocal performances were live.

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

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.

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.

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

A commercial is a commercial.

One thing the blues ain't, is funny.

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.

There's some Stills solo blues stuff, some Nash songs, and some material that's obviously all of us, so we're going to keep on going at it like this.

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.