Quotes by Stephen Stills

• If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with.
• One thing the blues ain't, is funny.
• 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.
• 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.
• The only albatross is the hurt you divine from what people say about your art.
• There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.
• 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'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.
• There were times I thought I was going to turn to the blues, but then I'd hear better blues players.
• I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child.
• I feel like I'm just learning how to play the guitar. I mean, really learning to play the guitar.
• 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.
• David knew everyone because he's such a social butterfly.
• An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist.
• After about a year or so, I was in L.A.; I'd decided to try to get a band together out there.
• A commercial is a commercial.
• I spent my last year of high school in Latin America, and there's a edge of salsa under all of my rhythms.
• 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.