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Folk art has never been much about politics it's about action and utility.

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Cass McCombs
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: November 13
Composer
Musician
Record Producer
Singer-Songwriter
Concord
California
Folks
Politics
Action
Art
Much
Never
Utility
Folk

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If it's possible to have an enemy without making it personal or moral, then that's what I'm trying to do.
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As long as there are a few people there, I can lose myself, which is the ultimate goal. And that's happening more and more the non-musical world is becoming less and less interesting to me.
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I do like the word timeless. That's a great word.
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Bringing the individual into it music only distracts from the universal and makes it trivial. And then it's easy to wash your hands of it because you might not be from their background, or you might disagree with their personal perspective. So you discount it and go back into your corner instead of coming out and engaging with everything.
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I'm not trying to write for the masses. I don't care.
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I don't think I'm even a musician. I don't play a lot of instruments, not really a soloist or anything.
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I don't live anywhere, so that's what's fun about tours.
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When I was young, I used to go to Baha'i camp, and they taught me a lot about the equality of religions.
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When I'm trying to write a song for someone else, you can only see anything through your own eyes.
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Try to keep your mind. Try not to eat bad, try not to wake up with too bad of a hangover.
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I think a master craftsman is someone who is unpretentious. He has a physical object in front of him and, while he works with a higher aim, he doesn't let his personality get in the way of his art. It's simply about the task at hand and to make it as functional and necessary to the world as he can.
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To me, craft work is the ultimate. Maybe I got this idea from the autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, who was employed as a sculptor to the state and church, making coins and things. While he admired Michelangelo, he also made fun of his spiritual angst with art.
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I wouldn't go into the studio if I didn't have a band who's ready, willing, and able.
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Making music and art is about expressing something that's universally human, maybe even beyond human, at best.
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I project love, music and love, and I pray for peace. A good song cuts straight to the heart sometimes it doesn't need to be too many lines - of course, I do love a good story.
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Lyrics are my racket music is play - the fluff stuff.
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I don't think I'm a particularly somber human being.
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I love songs because by nature they are concise they sum up. I try to use as few words as possible. It's usually funnier that way, anyway.
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People just wanna see someone talking about themselves constantly. I'm not interested in that.
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A baseball team is like a band. Because, conceptually, there are no heroes in baseball - there's just the team.
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