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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.

Cass McCombs

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Cass McCombs
Age: 46
Born: 1977
Born: November 13
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Loneliness is the most compelling force in the universe.
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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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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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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'm not trying to write for the masses. I don't care.
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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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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 do like the word timeless. That's a great word.
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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 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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When I was young, I used to go to Baha'i camp, and they taught me a lot about the equality of religions.
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Folk art has never been much about politics it's about action and utility.
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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 don't like going to the studio. It just seems too cold. There's no crowd to react to, or share anything with it's just talking into a microphone that's going into a computer.
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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 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 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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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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