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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.
Cass McCombs
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Cass McCombs
Age: 46
Born: 1977
Born: November 13
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It's hard to make out the difference between insults and bad advice.
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I think it's worthwhile to expand your comfort level and just do something awful. I wasn't trying to make music for money.
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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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I think I try to do a lot of things to weed out casual fans.
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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 don't need to control anything. Even with romantic partnerships, I don't need to control anyone.
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This is rock'n'roll, not classical music. It's about people working together.
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I don't think I'm a particularly somber human being.
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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 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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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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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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When I'm trying to write a song for someone else, you can only see anything through your own eyes.
Cass McCombs
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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People just wanna see someone talking about themselves constantly. I'm not interested in that.
Cass McCombs
I've always been interested in an idea of boundless love - an impersonal, big love.
Cass McCombs
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 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
I want to make something that's useful to someone, somewhere.
Cass McCombs
I don't live anywhere, so that's what's fun about tours.
Cass McCombs
