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Lyrics are my racket music is play - the fluff stuff.

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Cass McCombs
Age: 46
Born: 1977
Born: November 13
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If you've ever sang in falsetto, you know that your throat is between your voice and your mouth. In a standard voice, you sing from your belly. And when you sing in a falsetto, you're blocking that. It gives it a filter. It gives it a character. It's less revealing.
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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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As it turns out, it's really expensive to make movies, much more than records.
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Folk art has never been much about politics it's about action and utility.
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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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Everyone wants to be well-loved and appreciated but, at the same time, there are some people that just don't want to be your friend, and there's nothing you can do or say to change that.
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Loneliness is the most compelling force in the universe.
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The writing of the record didn't take long, because I just have a huge stack of papers and I just pluck from the stack. It took a long time because it's very expensive to make records in fact, I think it's a complete rip-off.
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This is rock'n'roll, not classical music. It's about people working together.
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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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When I'm trying to write a song for someone else, you can only see anything through your own eyes.
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I do like the word timeless. That's a great word.
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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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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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I've always thought about myself as somewhat of a folk musician. I just write words.
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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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It's the stupidest thing of all time, going on tour. It deteriorates the soul, but it's fun.
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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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