Ego Quote by Cass McCombs Download Open image “People expect not just songwriters but all personalities to pontificate about their egos.” — Cass McCombs ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ego People Personality Songwriters
People expect not just songwriters but all personalities to pontificate about their egos - they just wanna see someone talking about themselves constantly. I'm… — Cass McCombs Copy Share Image
As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. — Bono Copy Share
I'm a songwriter, principally, and I was real excited that people liked my songs, but you get a bit of an ego about it. — Rick Springfield Copy Share Image
I think that's an interesting point of being a songwriter, is to write songs that make people think. — Joshua James Alphonse Franceschi Copy Share Image
Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability. — Barry Mann Copy Share Image
When you research prolific songwriters, it is usually later in their career they write songs that they distance themselves from, or it's about other… — Paloma Faith Copy Share Image
That's what I was gonna say. It seems like songwriters should express who they are through what they're doing rather than trying to go… — Ron Mael Copy Share Image
I see what other people do and what songwriters don't. They don't get out and take care of themselves. Producers turn themselves into a… — Ester Dean Copy Share Image
And I can say this, most of the people who have recorded my songs are songwriters themselves. — Smokey Robinson Copy Share Image
I think in music and a lot of creative fields, people's egos get in the way of their ability of seeing the big picture. — John Oates Copy Share Image
Elvis Presley wore a Star of David and a cross around his neck and, when someone asked him about it, he said, "It makes… — Cass McCombs Copy Share Image
I've always thought about myself as somewhat of a folk musician. I just write words. I don't think I'm even a musician. I don't… — Cass McCombs Copy Share Image
I just write songs whenever I feel like it, whenever they come to me. — Cass McCombs Copy Share Image
I think I like singing when I'm singing live. It's just in the studio when it's a drag. — Cass McCombs Copy Share Image
It's not my way to talk about my feelings. They're impudent to myself, so it wouldn't make any sense if I tried to explain… — Cass McCombs Copy Share Image
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… — Cass McCombs Copy Share Image
All these biopics and biographies and people gossiping about so-and-so's drug abuse or who's sleeping with who, it's just a bunch of nonsense. — Cass McCombs Copy Share Image
A lot of religious texts make for good reading. That's why they hold up. — Cass McCombs Copy Share Image
Once biographical information contaminates your consciousness, it's impossible to erase it and look at someone's work the same way again. — Cass McCombs Copy Share Image
I don't like the word "happy." I wouldn't want to use it that context. I enjoy writing songs, it's a really good challenge, it… — Cass McCombs Copy Share Image
It doesn't mean that I'm overly enthusiastic about much music. Except the people that really touch me. It has to touch me, it has… — Cass McCombs Copy Share Image
Music is the marriage of the feelings of the living to the wisdom of the dead. — Cass McCombs Copy Share Image
Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of our incarnation.… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
For us who are now in power, we need to be challenged to serve the people and ignore our own egos and personal interests… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
“sometimes when everything seems at its worst when all conspires and gnaws and the hours, days, weeks years seem wasted – stretched there upon… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I'm a straight shooter, and most of the time my ego doesn't interrupt my relationships. — Gabriel Macht Copy Share Image
Thinking, or more precisely identification with thinking, gives rise to and maintains the ego, which, in our Western society in particular, is out of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Beware of self-indulgence. The romance surrounding the writing profession carries several myths: that one must suffer in order to be creative; that one must be cantankerous and objectionable in order to be bright; that ego is paramount over skill; that one can rise to a level from which one can tell the reader to go to hell. These myths, if… — David Brin Copy Share
“There are two kinds of people: goal-oriented and ego-oriented. Goal-oriented people work together and get things gone. Ego-oriented people don’t work.” — Charbel Tadros Copy Share Image
Heart surgeons do not have the world's smallest egos: when you ask them to name the world's three leading practitioners, they never can remember… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
I hate acting when I see it. I don't want to feel it, I don't want to see it, I want to be taken… — Rutger Hauer Copy Share Image
It's a constant man-ego-check going on in the streets, in this world. — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
“... a man doesn't like to have his ego popped, especially when he prides himself on his sagacity, and then to be proved wrong… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
