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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

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Stephen Stills
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: January 3
Guitarist
Multi-Instrumentalist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Studio Musician
Dallas
Texas
Stephen Arthur Stills
Steve Stills
Important
Halloween
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Decide
Longer
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Wells
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Albatross

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