"People take things a little too personal. I write these songs, and they're experiments with thoughts. That's it. I'm not a teacher."

-- Cass McCombs

#Song Quotes #Teacher Quotes #Writing Quotes

“Reagan believed the power of truth restated the world and re framed the world. I am a Reaganite. I'm proud to be a Reaganite. I will tell the truth, even if it's at the risk of causing some confusion sometimes with the timid.”
“Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.”
“A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow. When innovations are in the exploration stage, they need a champion to take them through the rest of the developmental stages. Otherwise the bureaucracy, politics, and people who can only see the fledgling and potential innovation through today's glasses will smother it or let it quietly die from malnourishment.”
“You have to pay a lot of attention to what's important, what's permanent, what's real.”
“I just kind of thought about doing this my whole life. I never doubted myself once. I've always been singing, and I've always wanted to be on tour with a rock band.”

Source : "McCracken Had No Rock Doubts" by Eric R. Danton, The Hartford Courant, September 1, 2005.
“In the depths of the night, fear grips my heart. It paralyzes my mind. But most of all, I feel very, very alone”
“I try not to think too much about an audience when Im writing the first draft of a book - at that stage, the prospect of anyone reading what Ive written would be enough to scare me into setting my laptop on fire.”
“I was thinking that I might fly today. Just to disprove all the things you say... please be careful with me, I'm sensitive, and I'd like to stay that way.”

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