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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.

Cass McCombs

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Cass McCombs
Age: 46
Born: 1977
Born: November 13
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I project love, music and love, and I pray for peace. A good song cuts straight to the heart sometimes it doesn't need to be too many lines - of course, I do love a good story.
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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.
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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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I'm not trying to write for the masses. I don't care.
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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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People just wanna see someone talking about themselves constantly. I'm not interested in that.
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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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As long as there are a few people there, I can lose myself, which is the ultimate goal. And that's happening more and more the non-musical world is becoming less and less interesting to me.
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As it turns out, it's really expensive to make movies, much more than records.
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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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Making music and art is about expressing something that's universally human, maybe even beyond human, at best.
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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 don't need to control anything. Even with romantic partnerships, I don't need to control anyone.
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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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Opinions only carry weight in the second or third person.
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I don't think I'm a particularly somber human being.
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I've always thought about myself as somewhat of a folk musician. I just write words.
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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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Elvis Presley wore a Star of David and a cross around his neck and, when someone asked him about it, he said, It makes me think. I love that quote. It's simple. It's beautiful. It's true.
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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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