Stephen Stills Quotes & Sayings

“An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist.”

“I feel like I'm just learning how to play the guitar. I mean, really learning to play the guitar.”

“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.”

“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.”

“One thing the blues ain't, is funny.”

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

“A commercial is a commercial.”

“David knew everyone because he's such a social butterfly.”

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

“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.”