Stephen Stills 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