Top 22 Stephen Stills Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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

A commercial is a commercial.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

After about a year or so, I was in L.A.; I’d decided to try to get a band together out there.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

You slow down when you get older.