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Stephen Stills
American
Musician
About the author
An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist.
Stephen Stills,
American
Musician
#People
#Art
#Artist
#Giving
After about a year or so, I was in L.A.; I'd decided to try to get a band together out there.
Stephen Stills,
American
Musician
A commercial is a commercial.
Stephen Stills,
American
Musician
I spent my last year of high school in Latin America, and there's a edge of salsa under all of my rhythms.
Stephen Stills,
American
Musician
#School
#America
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.
Stephen Stills,
American
Musician
#Art
#Popular
If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with.
Stephen Stills,
American
Musician
#Love
One thing the blues ain't, is funny.
Stephen Stills,
American
Musician
#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.
Stephen Stills,
American
Musician
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.
Stephen Stills,
American
Musician
#Harmony
#Thought
#Pretty
#Song
The only albatross is the hurt you divine from what people say about your art.
Stephen Stills,
American
Musician
#People
#Art
#Hurt
There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.
Stephen Stills,
American
Musician
#Love
#Men
#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.
Stephen Stills,
American
Musician
#Being
#Popular
#Trying
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.
Stephen Stills,
American
Musician
#Songs
#Thought
#Old
There were times I thought I was going to turn to the blues, but then I'd hear better blues players.
Stephen Stills,
American
Musician
#Thought
I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child.
Stephen Stills,
American
Musician
#Kids
#College
#Music
#Accident
#Folk
I feel like I'm just learning how to play the guitar. I mean, really learning to play the guitar.
Stephen Stills,
American
Musician
#Play
#Learning
#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.
Stephen Stills,
American
Musician
#Want
#God
#Living
David knew everyone because he's such a social butterfly.
Stephen Stills,
American
Musician