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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.

Cass McCombs

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Cass McCombs
Age: 46
Born: 1977
Born: November 13
Composer
Musician
Record Producer
Singer-Songwriter
Concord
California
Raised
Acoustic
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Acoustics
Took
Stumble
Grew
Suburbs
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Anything
Rap
Long
Radio
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Guitar

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I'm not trying to write for the masses. I don't care.
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I think I try to do a lot of things to weed out casual fans.
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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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I love being lost! I don't need to control anything. Even with romantic partnerships, I don't need to control anyone. 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.
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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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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 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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Lyrics are my racket music is play - the fluff stuff.
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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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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 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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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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It's the stupidest thing of all time, going on tour. It deteriorates the soul, but it's fun.
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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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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 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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A baseball team is like a band. Because, conceptually, there are no heroes in baseball - there's just the team.
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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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