Quotes by Stephen Stills

About Stephen Stills:

Stephen Arthur Stills is an American musician and multi-instrumentalist best known for his work with Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. He performed on a professional level in several other bands as well as maintaining a solo career at the same time.
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An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist.

Stephen Stills

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

The only albatross is the hurt you divine from what people say about your art.

Stephen Stills

I think that President Obama has done the best he possibly could during the first term considering that his opposition was willing to do whatever necessary to destroy him, even if it meant damaging the country in the process.

Stephen Stills

A commercial is a commercial.

Stephen Stills

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

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

Stephen Stills

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

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

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

There were times I thought I was going to turn to the blues, but then I'd hear better blues players.

Stephen Stills

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

I detest talking about myself. There is a reason why people pick up an instrument and put it between themselves and the rest of the world.

Stephen Stills

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.

Stephen Stills

I don't set out to write a political song. I am not one of those that feels compelled to write about what's going on.

Stephen Stills

I've learned you can't write on a computer on a bus. It jiggles too much, especially an Apple. The keyboard jiggles around too much, and there are too many typos.

Stephen Stills

You slow down when you get older.

Stephen Stills

After getting driven into the ground by the policies of the Bush administration, the economy is creeping up. It's doing that because people are sticking their shoulders to the wheel. Community banks are doing a lot of lending to small businesses and ...

Stephen Stills

Language is an inadequate form of communication. If you've picked up an instrument, it's because you don't feel you are communicating sufficiently.

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We moved around so much when I was a kid, the place I call home is New Orleans because at least I can remember the names of some of the streets there.

Stephen Stills

Author Bio

  • NameStephen Stills
  • DescriptionAmerican multi-instrumentalist and singer/songwriter
  • BornJanuary 3, 1945
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionGuitarist; Singer