The Stills-Young Band Quotes

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

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. 
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 

There's some Stills solo blues stuff, some Nash songs, and some material that's obviously all of us, so we're going to keep on going at it like this. 
Stephen Stills 

We certainly weren't a country band; we would take all kinds of influences from all over and blend them together. 
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 

As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more. 
Neil Young 

Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today there's a lot of images that go with the music. A lot of music is crap and it's all commercial and the images are all trying to sell the record. 
Neil Young 

Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They're very annoying. 
Neil Young 

I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of. 
Neil Young 

I just do what I do. I like to make music. 
Neil Young 

I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time. 
Neil Young 

I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature. 
Neil Young 

I'm not into this judgmental, religious-right kind of thing. 
Neil Young 

One new feature or fresh take can change everything. 
Neil Young 

This thing called Patriot Act, through which we abdicated a lot of our civil rights to defend the country against terrorism, it's a four-year story. 
Neil Young 

To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time. 
Neil Young 

When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near. 
Neil Young