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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. "

Stephen Stills

Bedroom

She

Thought

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Live

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Stephen Stills

Language

You

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" A commercial is a commercial. "

Stephen Stills

Commercial

" 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. "

" There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature. "