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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
Composer
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Record Producer
Singer-Songwriter
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California
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This is rock'n'roll, not classical music. It's about people working together.
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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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Folk art has never been much about politics it's about action and utility.
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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 think I like singing when I'm singing live. It's just in the studio when it's a drag.
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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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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 want to make something that's useful to someone, somewhere.
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Loneliness is the most compelling force in the universe.
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Lyrics are my racket music is play - the fluff stuff.
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As long as there are a few people there, I can lose myself, which is the ultimate goal. And that's happening more and more the non-musical world is becoming less and less interesting to me.
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As it turns out, it's really expensive to make movies, much more than records.
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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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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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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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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 don't live anywhere, so that's what's fun about tours.
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I don't think I'm a particularly somber human being.
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