Top 29 Quotes by 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.

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

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.

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.

You slow down when you get older.

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.

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.

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