Cass Elliot Quotes

Honesty is all you need.

Cass Elliot



How do I tell people who I am? Not being a writer, the only way is to sing songs that reflect my opinions.

Cass Elliot



I was just a bumpkin. Just a country bumpkin. I had just come to New York from Virginia. Or was it Baltimore?

Cass Elliot



I've always been so apathetic. I figured, OK, maybe the world is going to fall down around me. Now I want to make a better world... that's motherhood.

Cass Elliot



If you really think you're right, you should tell it.

Cass Elliot



If you truly dig what you are doing, if you lay it out that way, nobody can not respond. That's what rock and roll is; it's relentless.

Cass Elliot



My role in the Mamas and Papas was basically just to sing.

Cass Elliot



There's so much talk about the drug generation and songs about drugs. That's stupid. They aren't songs about drugs; they're about life.

Cass Elliot



They're paying me an outrageous sum of money; $40,000 a week, which is totally silly.

Cass Elliot



When you're famous, you don't get to meet people because they want you to like them when the present themselves to you, and you don't see the real people.

Cass Elliot