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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.

Cass McCombs

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Cass McCombs
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: November 13
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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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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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It's the stupidest thing of all time, going on tour. It deteriorates the soul, but it's fun.
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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 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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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. This is a transitory world we're all spirits just looking for love and finding it and holding on.
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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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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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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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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 don't live anywhere, so that's what's fun about tours.
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I want to make something that's useful to someone, somewhere.
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Folk art has never been much about politics it's about action and utility.
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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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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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I wouldn't claim to know what another person is thinking. I can imagine it, but it's my interpretation, and I try to make that clear. It's my vision of what I think their life is. I don't think there are empirical truths in that regard.
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