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I don't need to control anything. Even with romantic partnerships, I don't need to control anyone.

Cass McCombs

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Cass McCombs
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: November 13
Composer
Musician
Record Producer
Singer-Songwriter
Concord
California
Control
Anyone
Anything
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Even
Partnerships
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Romantic

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All these biopics and biographies and people gossiping about so-and-so's drug abuse or who's sleeping with who, it's just a bunch of nonsense.
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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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Opinions only carry weight in the second or third person.
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