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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: 46
Born: 1977
Born: November 13
Composer
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California
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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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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 don't think I'm a particularly somber human being.
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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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It's hard to make out the difference between insults and bad advice.
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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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This is rock'n'roll, not classical music. It's about people working together.
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It's not my way to talk about my feelings. They're impudent to myself, so it wouldn't make any sense if I tried to explain them to anyone else. I've never been to therapy - not interested in it.
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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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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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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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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 don't live anywhere, so that's what's fun about tours.
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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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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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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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I don't need to control anything. Even with romantic partnerships, I don't need to control anyone.
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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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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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Folk art has never been much about politics it's about action and utility.
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