Stephen Stills Quotes

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

I remember that first week at the Whisky and the gigs we (The Buffalo Springfield) did with the Byrds, We could really smoke ! That band never got on record as bad, and as hard as we were. Live we sounded like the Rolling Stones ...

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

Neil Young and Barry Friedman had stolen a Buffalo Springfield sign off the steamroller for Barrys house. They put it up. We all looked at it on the wall and a light went off. That's how we came up with the name

Love the one you're with.

Find the cost of freedom, buried in the ground
Mother earth will swallow you
Lay your body down

But it's as big as the promise, the promise of a coming day.

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 keeping them going.

If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with.

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

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.

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.

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.

Unlike President Obama, Mitt Romney has been inside the bubble all his life. He has no idea what's going on here. He has no idea how destructive Bush's eight years were to this country.

I spent my last year of high school in Latin America, and there's a edge of salsa under all of my rhythms.

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

You slow down when you get older.

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

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.

I have my ship, and all her flags are a-flying. She is all that I have left, and music is her name.

One thing the blues ain't, is funny.

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

A commercial is a commercial.