Cass McCombs Quotes

Personally, I can't see how anyone can produce any beautiful music out of being angry.

I could hear and feel music going on in me, and I couldn't get it out. You can always depend on a guitar.

There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.

I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence.

Definitely being spiritual helps me create good music because music is ultimately the sound of the god.

My first mixtape especially - that came from a heartbreak.

If you're singing, you're telling a story. So to tell it and tell it right, that's it.

Music is all about creativity.

I could care less about the particular. I like to make music.

My routine is fly, play, sleep, record. My center is the music I am making; when I see people together wherever it is on the planet, that we connect, that's what keeps my heart beating.

I think all of my songs are either based on personal experience or will be based on personal experience, because I do write a lot of songs prophetically.

I am always thirsting for beautiful, beautiful, beautiful music. I wish I could make it. Perhaps there isn't any music on earth like what I picture to myself.

We [musicians] are comfortable in front of the camera doing music videos, and it's almost a form of acting when we're doing music videos. We're acting out our own thoughts and what we've written down on paper.

I am a musician and am so thankful for that. I have no experience of war. But I find a similarity between performing music onstage and acting - a reality of emotion.

I'm a musician, so for the most part I've always thought that the musicians were equally as inspiring to listen to - maybe more so, in some cases - in addition to the artists.

Sometimes I think I was making music through the wrong end of a magnifying glass.

It is hard to think of another composer who so perfectly marries form and passion.

Music is how you feel. But if I can say one word, I'll say 'necessary.' I felt it was necessary.

Music is the perfect type of art.

Jesus, music has always been my first love. I use music in my work because it's the fastest way to an emotional place. You hear a song, and that memory comes right back-- you're there... Making music is immediate, and it's all about you. If you're playing guitar, the feeling comes through-- the way you bend the note, the intensity with which you hit the strings. With making films, although it's real emotion, it's false emotion. You're lying.

The only thing that drives music is the people who are making it.

With music you can express any emotion, you can paint pictures.

Sadly I don't sing. I missed it for a long time, but my daughter Emma said something wonderful when I was feeling blue one day: "Mom, you've just found a different way of using your voice, and that's with your books." In a way, she's right. It's just a different way of expressing what I feel about music, individuality, art and all the things I've always loved.

I like music because... its expressive, you can convey whatever you're thinking through a song. And it's the best respite for me anyway to do it through music. So I like music because you can express and let your soul out through it.

the one universal form of art is music.