“Is about the LA riots.”Graham Nash (92)

“It’s so enigmatic. It doesn’t really come down on either side. It’s about being mistreated by the police at home, and it was also a shout out and a little message to the boys over in ‘Nam who were trying to just get through the day.”Stephen Stills (188)

“‘For What It’s Worth’ was me going, ‘Psst, I think we’re in trouble.’ The troops in Nam took it as their marching song. It became the theme song for the entire Third Marines for a while. From then on, I was kind of known for that. Everybody was looking for a political message in everything I wrote, like I was running for the Senate at 24. I said, ‘Hang on, wait just a minute, I do not know the rules of the Senate’.”Stephen Stills (946)

“I started [writing songs – Ed] when I went to California a few months later. I ran into a draft dodger and wrote that song ‘Four Days Gone’ about him.”Stephen Stills (946)