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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.

Cass McCombs

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Cass McCombs
Age: 46
Born: 1977
Born: November 13
Composer
Musician
Record Producer
Singer-Songwriter
Concord
California
Moral
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Personal
Enemy
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Loneliness is the most compelling force in the universe.
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I do like the word timeless. That's a great word.
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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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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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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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When I'm trying to write a song for someone else, you can only see anything through your own eyes.
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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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Folk art has never been much about politics it's about action and utility.
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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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Opinions only carry weight in the second or third person.
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I want to make something that's useful to someone, somewhere.
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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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People just wanna see someone talking about themselves constantly. I'm not interested in that.
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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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People take things a little too personal. I write these songs, and they're experiments with thoughts. That's it. I'm not a teacher.
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I'm not trying to write for the masses. I don't care.
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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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Making music and art is about expressing something that's universally human, maybe even beyond human, at best.
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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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It's the stupidest thing of all time, going on tour. It deteriorates the soul, but it's fun.
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