Stephen Stills Quotes

"One thing the blues ain't, is funny."

"David Crosby is an incredible musician. He's to the point now where he never makes mistakes."

"I ain't no Dylan, you know. I haven't got the gift of the language, I don't think."

Neil and I used to have guitar wars on stage that were really stupid. It was really funny."

"I abhorred hippies. That's fair and accurate."

"I'm a pretty private guy. I like having people over and having a meal at home."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"My first album would have been a number one record if George Harrison hadn't come out right behind me with All Things Must Pass."

David Crosby Quotes

"Being a hippy was the most natural thing in the world to me."

"There are a lot of people who look great but can't sing."

"I love Stephan Stills and Neil Young dearly. We talk all the time."

"We don't take show business or the spotlight seriously."


"The people who run record companies now wouldn't know a song if it flew up their nose and died."

"Now record companies are run by lawyers and accountants."

"We were right about a lot of things...but we were wrong about the drugs."

"I've always lived my life intensely and tried to write about those experiences, as opposed to writing abstract lyrics."

"At this stage of my life, I don't want to stay in one place too long without moving forward, without trying something new."

"I don't know why I'm alive and Jimi isn't and Janis isn't and Mama Cass isn't and all my other friends, I have no idea why me, but I got lucky."

"Who remembers the 60's? I don't look back hardly at all. I don't even remember Woodstock."

Crosby, Stills & Nash Quotes

David Crosby: "We've all been friends for a long time. And when the vibe's good we really have a lot of fun with each other."

Stephen Stills: "I abhorred hippies. That's fair and accurate."

Graham Nash: "If I read or listened to critics of our music. I'd have been discouraged a long time ago."

David Crosby: "We don't take show business or the spotlight seriously."

Stephen Stills: "I feel like I'm just learning how to play the guitar. I mean, really learning to play the guitar."

Graham Nash: "With Crosby, Stills and Nash and Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young...we're very strong individuals, and we want our lives to be led the way we want them to."

David Crosby: "Good music is an end in and of itself. When you're doing it, it's the most fun part."

Stephen Stills: "Over the years I've had other people to please but now I've finally got to play in the way I always wanted to do in the first place."

Graham Nash: "The secret is to enjoy and be proud of the music we've created and the people with whom we have been linked."

Famous Rock & Roll Muses

Marilyn Monroe: The subject of Elton John's "Candle In The Wind", later Elton re-wrote the lyrics as a tribute to princess Diana.

Patti Boyd: Both "Something" by the Beatles and "Layla" by Derek And The Dominos were written about her. Patti was caught in a romantic triangle between then husband George Harrison and Eric Clapton, who was in love with her. She eventually divorced George and married Eric.

Billy Jean King: Elton John and Bernie Taupin wrote "Philadelphia Freedom" about Billy Jean's tennis team.

Judy Collins: Crosby, Stills & Nash recorded "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes", a song about Still's girlfriend.

Rosanna Arquette: Toto's "Rosanna" and Peter Gabriel's "In Your Eyes" were both written for this actress.

Erin Everly: Erin is the daughter of Don Everly of the Everly Bros. The song "Sweet Child O' Mine" by Guns n Roses was written for her by then boyfriend Axel Rose

Biggest British Invasion Bands

The biggest bands that helped make the British invasion of mid-sixties the musical event of the decade.

1. The Beatles: The biggest music act of all time and the first major pop artist to come out of England. The Beatles were responsible for not only changing the musical landscape but pop culture and therefore world culture.

2. The Rolling Stones: Easily the second most successful band to emerge from England during the sixties. After the Beatles broke up in 1970 the Stones continued, earning themselves the nick name "The World's Greatest Rock & Roll Band".

3. The Who: Famous for playing their music loud and smashing their instruments, the Who peaked creatively and commercially with the albums Tommy (1969) and The Who's Next (1971).

4. The Moody Blues: This band became big combining classical music and rock especially on the album Days Of Future Past (1967).

5. The Animals: Second group, after the Beatles, to have a number one single in the U.S. (The House Of The Rising Sun).

6. The Kinks: With songs like You Really Got Me and All Day And All Of The Night, the Kinks were the forefathers of both punk and metal music.

7. The Yardbirds: This group spawned such guitarists as Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page, giving birth to future mega groups Cream, Derek And The Dominos, Jeff Beck Group and Led Zepplin.

8. The Hollies: The Hollies had hits all through the sixties and into the seventies. One time member Graham Nash quit in the l968 to form the super group Crosby, Stills And Nash (Later Young).

9. The Spencer Davis Group: The Spencer Davis Group had big hits with I'm A Man and Gimme Some Lovin'. Future superstar Steve Winwood was the band's keyboardist, lead singer and main songwriter.

10. Manfred Mann: This group's biggest hit during the sixties was Do Wah Diddy Diddy (Bill Murray sings this song in the movie Stripes). More than a decade later, as Manfred Mann's Earth Band, they had a number one hit with Bruce Springsteen's Blinded By The Light.