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I don't think I'm a particularly somber human being.

Cass McCombs

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Cass McCombs
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: November 13
Composer
Musician
Record Producer
Singer-Songwriter
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California
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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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Making music and art is about expressing something that's universally human, maybe even beyond human, at best.
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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 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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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 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'm not trying to write for the masses. I don't care.
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Opinions only carry weight in the second or third person.
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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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It's hard to make out the difference between insults and bad advice.
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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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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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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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I wouldn't go into the studio if I didn't have a band who's ready, willing, and able.
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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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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 think I'm even a musician. I don't play a lot of instruments, not really a soloist or anything.
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I don't live anywhere, so that's what's fun about tours.
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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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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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