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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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Singer-Songwriter
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California
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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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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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Lyrics are my racket music is play - the fluff stuff.
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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'm not trying to write for the masses. I don't care.
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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 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 don't live anywhere, so that's what's fun about tours.
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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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It's hard to make out the difference between insults and bad advice.
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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 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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Opinions only carry weight in the second or third person.
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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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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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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've always been interested in an idea of boundless love - an impersonal, big love.
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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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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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I wouldn't go into the studio if I didn't have a band who's ready, willing, and able.
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