69 Quotes by Stephen Stills


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

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

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