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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.

Cass McCombs

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Cass McCombs
Age: 46
Born: 1977
Born: November 13
Composer
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Singer-Songwriter
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California
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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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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 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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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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I'm not trying to write for the masses. I don't care.
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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 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.
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As it turns out, it's really expensive to make movies, much more than records.
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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 want to make something that's useful to someone, somewhere.
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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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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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A baseball team is like a band. Because, conceptually, there are no heroes in baseball - there's just the team.
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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 don't need to control anything. Even with romantic partnerships, I don't need to control anyone.
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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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I don't live anywhere, so that's what's fun about tours.
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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 try to do a lot of things to weed out casual fans.
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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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