Stephen Stills
Stephen Stills

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

Stephen Stills
Stephen Stills

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

Stephen Stills
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
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
Stephen Stills

One thing the blues ain't, is funny.

Stephen Stills
Stephen Stills

I love Obama's calm and dignity. A lot of people confuse that with being aloof, but I know people that have held that job. It's a 24-hour barrage of information.

Stephen Stills
Stephen Stills

A commercial is a commercial.

Stephen Stills
Stephen Stills

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.

Stephen Stills
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
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.

Stephen Stills
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
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
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
Stephen Stills

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
Stephen Stills

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

Stephen Stills
Stephen Stills

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

Stephen Stills
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
Stephen Stills

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

Stephen Stills
Stephen Stills

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

Stephen Stills
Stephen Stills

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