Quotes from Stephen Stills

I spent my last year of high school in Latin America, and there's a edge of salsa under all of my rhythms.

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.

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

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.

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

A commercial is a commercial.

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.

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

After about a year or so, I was in L.A.; I'd decided to try to get a band together out there.

After getting driven into the ground by the policies of the Bush administration, the economy is creeping up. It's doing that because people are sticking their shoulders to the wheel. Community banks are doing a lot of lending to small businesses and keeping them going.

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.

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

Love the one you're with.

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.

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.

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.

Paranoia strikes deep,Into your life it will creep.It starts when you're always afraid.Step out of line, the men come and take you away.

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

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

You slow down when you get older.

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.

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.

There are three things men can do with women

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.