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I'm curious about life, period.
This digital world is completely fascinating to me.
There is a great correlation between music and images.
Wealth and fame can only be so important in the face of musical magic
People like Beck and Shawn Colvin are some of the people I listen to lately.
I only do solo albums when songs are screaming at me to be let out of my mind.
Rules and regulations, who needs them. Open up the door, we can change the world.
Being in a different band always brings great musical experiences to be able to draw on.
After six or seven performances of any song, you begin to perform it rather than feel it.
If I read or listened to critics of our music. I'd have been discouraged a long time ago.
If I read or listened to critics of our music, I'd have been discouraged a long time ago.
I've been a photographer all these years... I haven't been in my own darkroom for 10 years.
If you don't want to be there, it shows in the energy that you put out and in your actions.
I find it somewhat difficult to write with other people, although it has happened occasionally.
I've been listening to a lot of Hollies stuff lately, and it's beginning to sound pretty good to me.
We are excited about the music, past and present and future, and are really looking forward to playing.
You know, every year has been fantastic for me, I'm still here, I'm still alive and it's been fantastic.
Generally, my writing is influenced by living, by absorbing everything that happens to me and my actions.
I wasnt thinking of the longevity of any of my songs, but I am extremely pleased with the lasting effect.
I mean, there's times to rock and roll, and I love that too. But I think my first love is acoustic music.
I wasn't thinking of the longevity of any of my songs, but I am extremely pleased with the lasting effect.
I fail to see the issue that will shock the people of this great country of ours into some decisive action.
I think Stills has been playing better than ever. I know a lot of it sounds self-serving, but he truly has.
I still have an insane drive to create and express myself, and it'll never stop because I don't know how to stop it.
Teach your children well, so they don't live in off-campus group houses and throw loud parties while I'm trying to sleep.
I don't shoot kittens with balls of wool. I don't shoot sunsets. What draws me? Ironic, surreal, unexplained, timely moments.
My parents recognized something in me that they encouraged instead of deflated, and I'll always be grateful to them for that.
The Hollies, after I left in 1968, had the audacity, the gall, to have three number one records after I left. Thanks a lot, guys.
Do you know anybody under 25 that gives a damn whether you marry a man if you're a man or if you marry a woman if you're a woman? No.
There really is a kind of insane beauty around us all the time. It's just a question of learning to slow down, take a deep breath and meet the moment.
We seem to somewhat be behind an eight ball, and what I mean by that is we're constantly waiting for a call from Neil as to whether he wants to do CSNY.
If every human being disappeared off the face of the earth in an instant, the earth would still keep spinning and the planet would develop new life forms.
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.
You don't get on your feet if you don't have to, you know. And these people were on their feet rockin', and that was thrilling for David and I, absolutely.
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.
We want to get this good music to as many people as possible because I think it heals, it soothes, I think music is incredibly important, especially in today's chaos.
Teach your children well...and feed them on your dreams...Don't ever ask them why. If they told you you would cry. So just look at them and sigh and know they love you.
Let me in, immigration man, can I cross the line and pray, I can stay another day? Won't you let me in, immigration man? I won't toe your line today, I can't see it anyway.
Martin guitars have now brought out, you know, on a more traditional level, the Stephen Stills' model of Martin guitars. It's beautiful. I just went inside. I bought one immediately.
All the signs were right. And when I mean all the sings were right, the only signs that we care about when we start a project of making a record is, do we have the songs - it's that simple.
I'm not so sure that people consider homelessness to be as important as, say, the Vietnam War. One should never even try to equate them because, of course, they're tragedies on both sides of the coin.
I began to realize that photographs, these still images, have a tremendous power to move your soul. They can change your life by what you choose to get out of them, and I started to collect photographs.
Neil's effect on the band was immediate and very fulfilling. He adds a certain edge to the sound and, of course, he is an incredible musician. We became a better band because of the inclusion of Neil Young.
There are always new things to experience, internalize then write about. This process is ongoing with me. It never stops. The opportunity to reach new audiences with all of the music that we have made is thrilling.
Just with the basic one guitar, one piano and one vocal and an audience, I think that the intimacy comes through more. People feel much more connected to the song because there's nothing in the way, and I actually enjoy doing that.
I realized at one point that David and I had not made a record together in almost 26 years and I thought that that was absurd because, first of all it had gone so fast, I didn't really realize, neither did David, that it had been that long.
Life is not perfect. It never will be. You just have to make the very best of it, and you have to open your heart to what the world can show you; and sometimes it's terrifying, and sometimes it's incredibly beautiful, and I'll take both. Thanks.
We only had enough money really to cut 10 things and be in there for a month because it's expensive, you know. And, singer/songwriters, today are lucky if they can get a deal, you know. So, we actually worked so fast that we really cut 20 things.
I worked very hard on me and David's record and I'm extremely proud of the record, as most people are who were involved with it. And, it's been wonderfully received by people who like our kind of music, they think it's something special, and so do I.
When I was born in 1942, World War II was still going. And I began to realize when I became a young adult that if we don't teach our kids a better way of relating to their fellow human beings, the very future of humanity on the planet is in jeopardy.