Cass McCombs Quotes

Be useful where thou livest.

I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.

Things don't have to change the world to be important.

We want to help everyone find meaning in their life and help translate the story that each person actually matters in the world.

I've always had a sense that I am doing something very important, something vital.

At the end of the day, most people just want to be valued. They want to feel they have put their time to something that will seem to have been of value when they die.

I want to do something that matters.

Reason teaches us that what is good is good for something, and that what is good for nothing is not good at all.

Figure out what you are meant to contribute to the world and make sure you contribute it

You have to find the thing you feel you can contribute to the world.

It's hard to put a price on a life's work.

All of us want to know that we are doing great things, that we are touching a lot of people, and that what we are doing is something bigger than ourselves.

I don't want to be a guy that's just out there to be out there; I want to play and contribute.

I just want to do something meaningful in the world. I want to contribute positively. That means the roles I get to play as well.

When I choose what I do, I ask, 'Does it make a difference?'

I can rippity rap, lyrical miracle all day, but if you don't have a message behind it and you not saying nothing, it doesn't make sense.

I really want to build something to make the world a better place.

When you stop giving and offering something to the rest of the world, it's time to turn out the lights.

Do something that will last and be beautiful. It doesn't have to be a bridge-or a symphony or book or a business. It could be the look in the eye of a child you raise or a simple garden you tend. Do something that will last and be beautiful.

I want to know that I've accomplished something. I want to feel that it had some meaning. At the last summing up, I want to be sure it wasn't all-for nothing.

One thing is certain: you will find plenty of worthwhile things to do. You will not be bored, or lack fulfillment in your life. Most important of all, you will know that you have not lived and died for nothing, because you will have become part of the great tradition of those who have responded to the amount of pain and suffering in the universe by trying to make the world a better place.

When I decided to be a musician I was hoping that it would be one of my contributions in having a positive impact on the world. That's always what I wanted to do.

One of the very important things that have to be learned around the time dying becomes a real prospect is to recognize those occasions when we have been useful in the world.

What is it that endowed things with meaning, value, significance? The creating heart, which desired, and, out of its desire, created. It created joy and woe. It wanted to satiate itself with woe. We must take all the suffering that has been endured by men and animals upon ourselves and affirm it, and possess a goal in which it acquires reason.

Action can give us the feeling of being useful, but only words can give us a sense of weight and purpose.