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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: 47
Born: 1977
Born: November 13
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Opinions only carry weight in the second or third person.
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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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It's hard to make out the difference between insults and bad advice.
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Folk art has never been much about politics it's about action and utility.
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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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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'm trying to write a song for someone else, you can only see anything through your own eyes.
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This is rock'n'roll, not classical music. It's about people working together.
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As it turns out, it's really expensive to make movies, much more than records.
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I've always been interested in an idea of boundless love - an impersonal, big love.
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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 live anywhere, so that's what's fun about tours.
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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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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 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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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 think I try to do a lot of things to weed out casual fans.
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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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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've always thought about myself as somewhat of a folk musician. I just write words.
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