A commercial is a commercial.
A friend of mine had a Fender Stratocaster, but it was too tough for me, so I learned how to play fretted instruments on a baritone ukulele, like the guy in the Kingston Trio had.
After about a year or so, I was in L.A.; I'd decided to try to get a band together out there.
An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist.
David knew everyone because he's such a social butterfly.
God forbid if David Crosby gets sick again and I can't tour anymore, or something happens where I can't get around, what am I going to live on? I'm going to be living on mechanicals. So I don't want to hear it.
I feel like I'm just learning how to play the guitar. I mean, really learning to play the guitar.
I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child.
I have a German-made guitar that's fairly new, but it's made out of aged wood. It's desperately cool, but it weighs a ton.
I spent my last year of high school in Latin America, and there's a edge of salsa under all of my rhythms.
I used a standard array of Gretsches and Martins, plus a Dobro, a banjo, and pianos.
I'd gone to see Chet Atkins doing a demonstration at a guitar store in the late '50s, and of course, I fell in love with his playing, and I began Travis-picking all over the South.
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.
If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with.
My favorite piece is my '53 Esquire; I've always liked one pickup and two knobs.
Neil had a fondness for Gretsch guitars, which rubbed off on me, so the original Buffalo Springfield sound was comprised primarily of Gretsches. Richie got an Epiphone to saw on; Bruce played a Fender bass.
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.
One thing the blues ain't, is funny.
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.
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.
The D'Angelico disappeared, thanks to some dope-crazed roadies, God bless 'em, as did a sunburst J-200 with an Alpine spruce top and a rosewood body.
The only albatross is the hurt you divine from what people say about your art.
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.
There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.
There were times I thought I was going to turn to the blues, but then I'd hear better blues players.
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.
We certainly weren't a country band; we would take all kinds of influences from all over and blend them together.
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.
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