Stephen Stills quotes

Stephen Stills is an American musician, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, best known as a founding member of Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. His work has been influential in shaping folk rock and classic rock music. He is renowned for his distinctive guitar style and powerful songwriting. Here are 16 of his quotes:

There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature. (Stephen Stills)
An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist. View quote
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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. View quote
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I feel like I'm just learning how to play the guitar. I mean, really learning to play the guitar. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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One thing the blues ain't, is funny. View quote
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The only albatross is the hurt you divine from what people say about your art. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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David knew everyone because he's such a social butterfly. (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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Stephen Stills

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Occupation: American Musician
Born: January 3, 1945
Quotes count: 16

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