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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: 46
Born: 1977
Born: November 13
Composer
Musician
Record Producer
Singer-Songwriter
Concord
California
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Utility
Folk
Folks
Politics
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Art

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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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I took piano lessons when I was a little kid, but even before that, you're singing in the classroom and wherever. Gosh, children are always singing. But I took music lessons, some choir and things like that at school. I learned how to play the guitar when I was about 13... ancient history.
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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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A baseball team is like a band. Because, conceptually, there are no heroes in baseball - there's just the team.
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I've always been interested in an idea of boundless love - an impersonal, big love.
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I don't need to control anything. Even with romantic partnerships, I don't need to control anyone.
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I do like the word timeless. That's a great word.
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People just wanna see someone talking about themselves constantly. I'm not interested in that.
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I don't know about timeless. I actually think most of what I do is completely modern, but universally modern. Who decides what timeless even means? Are the things that we consider timeless now going to, in fact, be considered timeless in 300 years? Probably not.
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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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When I'm trying to write a song for someone else, you can only see anything through your own eyes.
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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.
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It's just a joy to be able to work with a lot of different musicians. When you play with great musicians, whether they're schooled or self-taught, they keep you on your toes.
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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 think it's worthwhile to expand your comfort level and just do something awful. I wasn't trying to make music for money.
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It's not like that when you're a songwriter - songwriters aren't like pulp writers or journalists, even. You just follow the muse. It's called muse-ic. Whenever the muse decides to bestow her inspiration on the songwriter, then the song is born.
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I grew up in the suburbs and was raised on rap radio, so it took me a long time to stumble upon the acoustic guitar as a resource for anything.
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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 don't like going to the studio. It just seems too cold. There's no crowd to react to, or share anything with it's just talking into a microphone that's going into a computer.
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Opinions only carry weight in the second or third person.
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