Graham Nash Quotes (61 Quotes)

As artists, we reacted to our environment and wanted to speak about it. When Crosby handed me the Time magazine with the picture on the cover with the girl crouching over the body of the slain student, I watched him write Ohio.

People like Beck and Shawn Colvin are some of the people I listen to lately.

One can't deny what has happened to us in the past. The secret is to enjoy and be proud of the music we've created and the people with whom we have been linked. It's all a long chain of involvement in the world, and we are proud to be yet another link in this chain.

With Crosby, Stills, and Nash and Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young... we're very strong individuals, and we want our lives to be led the way we want them to.

After six or seven performances of any song, you begin to perform it rather than feel it.

We will take it one album at a time. We have other tracks in the can, but we'll see.

We can't forget what happened on May 4th, 1970, when four students gave up their lives because they had the American constitutional right of peaceful protest. They gave up their lives. And to sing that song in that spot on that anniversary was very emotional for us.

We went in the studio ... to make music. And I think Neil liked that. When he came down to play on one song, he stayed roughly for about three months.

I don't have to ask anyone's permission to do anything. It's nice not have to get decisions out of three, sometimes four people, which can be like pulling teeth. So the amount of control that I have over what I'm doing is better for me as a solo artist.

If you don't want to be there, it shows in the energy that you put out and in your actions.

You know, every year has been fantastic for me, I'm still here, I'm still alive and it's been fantastic.