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
call home moved names orleans remember streets
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.
music wall names
Neil Young and Barry Friedman had stolen a Buffalo Springfield sign off the steamroller for Barrys house. They put it up. We all looked at it on the wall and a light went off. That's how we came up with the name
rock-and-roll names flying
I have my ship, and all her flags are a-flying. She is all that I have left, and music is her name.
cry fits internet tend theme time traitor wanna
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.
blues material obviously solo 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.
american-musician decided
After about a year or so, I was in L.A.; I'd decided to try to get a band together out there.
band few friendly grown relationships rounded sands shall time within
The relationships within the band have grown much more friendly and forgiving, and the sands of time have rounded off a few corners, shall we say.
banks bush businesses creeping driven ground keeping lending people policies shoulders sticking
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.
picked
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.
feels
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.
detest instrument people pick themselves
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.
computer keyboard
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.
american-musician built chipping died nine recorded songs sort studio
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.
confuse held love people
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.