Cass McCombs Quotes & Sayings

“I think I have some very meaningful relationships with people; we all do. At the same time, I recognize that everyone is following their own heart; there's been people who have left my life, and I don't have a problem with that. This is a transitory world; we're all spirits just looking for love and finding it and holding on.”

“Even if I'm writing music, it's with a lyric in mind, to communicate some kind of feeling.”

“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 don't think I'm a particularly somber human being.”

“A baseball team is like a band. Because, conceptually, there are no heroes in baseball - there's just the team.”

“It's hard to make out the difference between insults and bad advice.”

“Music is the marriage of the feelings of the living to the wisdom of the dead.”

“I don't need to control anything. Even with romantic partnerships, I don't need to control anyone.”

“I write for myself, and I write for my friends and people who I have a connection with. I try to give some dignity to peoples' lifestyles that tend to be ignored.”

“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.”