17 Best Stephen Stills Quotes and Sayings

1- “If you can’t be with the one you love, love the one you’re with.”

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

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

4- “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.”

5- “One thing the blues ain’t, is funny.”

6- “There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.”

7- “I feel like I’m just learning how to play the guitar. I mean, really learning to play the guitar.”

8- “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.”

9- “One thing the blues ain’t, is funny.”

10- “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.”

11- “There were times I thought I was going to turn to the blues, but then I’d hear better blues players.”

12- “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.”

13- “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.”

14- “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.”

15- “You slow down when you get older.”

16- “Speak out. You’ve got to speak out against the madness”

17- “I have my ship, and all her flags are a-flying. She is all that I have left, and music is her name.”