Words matter. These are the best Cass McCombs Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
When you play with great musicians, whether they’re schooled or self-taught, they keep you on your toes. It comes down to people’s personalities and individual energies.
I grew up in the suburbs and was raised on rap radio, so it took me a long time to stumble upon the acoustic guitar as a resource for anything.
Opinions only carry weight in the second or third person.
Thank God we don’t know a lot about Shakespeare or Moses or Homer or Lautreamont. These are the best guys we got, and their art is powerful because they’re mysterious.
It’s hard to make out the difference between insults and bad advice.
I have no idea what will become of my work in the future, the future folk will not be aware of our influence over them, as we are unaware of how our dead influence us.
Folk art has never been much about politics; it’s about action and utility.
I just write songs whenever I feel like it, whenever they come to me.
A lot of people don’t know what it’s like to actually be hungry. I do. I’ve also slept on the streets.
I don’t care much about politics. That kind of witchcraft I stay away from because people end up dead. I’d rather die for music.
I’m making music with my friends. It’s fun. It should be fun. You shouldn’t make music if it isn’t fun.
Even if I’m writing music, it’s with a lyric in mind, to communicate some kind of feeling.
Musicians wake up and create a more loving community by creating heavier music.
I project love, music and love, and I pray for peace. A good song cuts straight to the heart; sometimes it doesn’t need to be too many lines – of course, I do love a good story.
A baseball team is like a band. Because, conceptually, there are no heroes in baseball – there’s just the team.
Sometimes I feel like I finish a song, and there’s another song that I have to write in response to that song. Each is like its own separate feeling, its own separate universe.
I don’t think music is my job – I don’t think about it that way, because I don’t really get paid. There’s no paycheck at the end; it’s more of a ‘whatever is left over’ kind of situation.
People expect not just songwriters but all personalities to pontificate about their egos – they just wanna see someone talking about themselves constantly. I’m not interested in that.
Music is the marriage of the feelings of the living to the wisdom of the dead.
I was just a folk singer. I cut my teeth on the streets, you know.
