Stephen Stills quotes
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“There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.”
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“The only albatross is the hurt you divine from what people say about your art”
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“There are three things men can do with women”
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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.”
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“Speak out. You've got to speak out against the madness”
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“David knew everyone because he's such a social butterfly.”
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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.”
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“But it's as big as the promise, the promise of a coming day.”
-- Stephen StillsSource : "Southern Cross". Song by Richard Curtis, Michael Curtis, Stephen Stills, September 1982.
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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”
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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”
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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”
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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”
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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...”
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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”
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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.”
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“I feel like I'm just learning how to play the guitar. I mean, really learning to play the guitar”
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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”
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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”
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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”
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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”
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“Find the cost of freedom, buried in the ground Mother earth will swallow you Lay your body down”
-- Stephen StillsSource : "Song: 'Find the Cost of Freedom'". 1971.
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