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
When you’re on stage, you gotta do it. People pay to see you, and they deserve to be entertained, and you should go out there and really give it your best shot. And that’s quite a challenge. – Cass Elliot
You have a new audience for every show. Even though you do the same thing all the time, you gotta keep it fresh for yourself, and you gotta keep it good and interesting and something you want to do. I’m anxious to have a really terrific act. Whatever it takes it takes. – Cass Elliot
Probably the biggest bring-down in my life was being in a pop group and finding out just how much it was like everything it was supposed to be against. – 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
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
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’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
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
