Stephen Stills Quotes

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

  Stephen Stills

  Women, Suffering, Three

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• 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

  Art, Halloween, Important

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• Speak out. You've got to speak out against the madness

  Stephen Stills

  Speaks Out, Madness, Speak

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• Fear is the lock and laughter the key to your heart.

  Stephen Stills

  Song, Laughter, Heart

  Song: Suite: Judy Blue Eyes, 2007

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

  Stephen Stills

  Rock And Roll, Names, Flying

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

  Stephen Stills

  Mother, Freedom, Cost

  "Song: 'Find the Cost of Freedom'". 1971.

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

  Stephen Stills

  Art, Hurt, People

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

  Stephen Stills

  Promise, Bigs

  "Southern Cross". Song by Richard Curtis, Michael Curtis, Stephen Stills, September 1982.

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• Love the one you're with.

  Stephen Stills

  Settling In, Love The One You Re

  "Love the One You're With" (song) (1970) See Harburg 9

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• 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

  Stephen Stills

  Music, Wall, Light

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• It's getting to the point where I am no fun anymore, I am sorry. / Sometimes it hurts so badly I must cry out loud, ' I am lonely.' / I am yours, you are mine, you are what you are, you make it hard.

  Stephen Stills

  Lonely, Hurt, Sorry

  Song: Suite: Judy Blue Eyes, 2007

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• 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

  Player, Always Trying, Groups

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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

  Art, Giving Up, People

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

  Stephen Stills

  Mean, Guitar, Play

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• 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

  Sick, Want, Crosby

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• I much prefer the road. My thing is getting live in front of people. There is a sterile environment to a studio that doesnt make me let go.

  Stephen Stills

  Letting Go, People, Environment

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• There are three things men can do with women

  Stephen Stills

  Men, Three, Three Things

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• 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

  Drunk, Tunes, Littles

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• One thing the blues ain't, is funny.

  Stephen Stills

  One Thing

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

  Stephen Stills

  Children, Kids, College

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• 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

  Latin, School, Years

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

  Stephen Stills

  Butterfly, Social, Social Service

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• 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.

  Stephen Stills

  Music, Rolling, Band

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

  Stephen Stills

  Player, Turns

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• 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

  Years, Trying, Together

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