Stephen Stills
Stephen Stills
Stephen Arthur Stillsis an American musician and multi-instrumentalist best known for his work with Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionFolk Singer
Date of Birth3 January 1945
CityDallas, TX
CountryUnited States of America
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We moved around so much when I was a kid, the place I call home is New Orleans because at least I can remember the names of some of the streets there.
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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.
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('Man Alive!') was specifically designed to be able to play live. I wanted lots of air. It'll be the easiest DVD because a lot of the vocal performances were live.
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Unlike President Obama, Mitt Romney has been inside the bubble all his life. He has no idea what's going on here. He has no idea how destructive Bush's eight years were to this country.
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The phone rings in the studio. It says, 'Neil Young for Stephen ... Hi, I'm in San Luis Obispo in Black Beauty (Young's '47 Buick), and I'll be there in about four hours.
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It's called 'Cry Traitor,' which I may just let the Internet take because it fits with the theme of the tour. 'So you wanna cry traitor every time we disagree.' That's what they tend to do.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I've just built a studio in my mama's old bedroom, which I thought was fitting; she died last year. We've recorded nine songs recorded in there already; we're sort of just chipping away.
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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.
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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.