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Cass McCombs
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: November 13
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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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This is rock'n'roll, not classical music. It's about people working together.
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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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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 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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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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A baseball team is like a band. Because, conceptually, there are no heroes in baseball - there's just the team.
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Elvis Presley wore a Star of David and a cross around his neck and, when someone asked him about it, he said, It makes me think. I love that quote. It's simple. It's beautiful. It's true.
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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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Folk art has never been much about politics it's about action and utility.
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I love being lost! I don't need to control anything. Even with romantic partnerships, I don't need to control anyone. I think I have some very meaningful relationships with people, we all do. At the same time, I recognize that everyone is following their own heart there's been people who have left my life and I don't have a problem with that.
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Making music and art is about expressing something that's universally human, maybe even beyond human, at best. To make it about the artist and to dwell upon biographical information can only make it singular, and I am really, really disgusted by that.
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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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People just wanna see someone talking about themselves constantly. I'm not interested in that.
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I think I like singing when I'm singing live. It's just in the studio when it's a drag.
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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 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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It's the stupidest thing of all time, going on tour. It deteriorates the soul, but it's fun.
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I think I prefer singing in falsetto. I like the way it sounds. It doesn't sound like my natural voice. It sounds like a character.
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I write for myself, and I write for my friends and people who I have a connection with. I try to give some dignity to peoples' lifestyles that tend to be ignored.
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