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I want to make something that's useful to someone, somewhere.

Cass McCombs

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Cass McCombs
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: November 13
Composer
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Singer-Songwriter
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California
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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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It's not my way to talk about my feelings. They're impudent to myself, so it wouldn't make any sense if I tried to explain them to anyone else. I've never been to therapy - not interested in it.
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Lyrics are my racket music is play - the fluff stuff.
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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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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've always thought about myself as somewhat of a folk musician. I just write words.
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If you've ever sang in falsetto, you know that your throat is between your voice and your mouth. In a standard voice, you sing from your belly. And when you sing in a falsetto, you're blocking that. It gives it a filter. It gives it a character. It's less revealing.
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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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A baseball team is like a band. Because, conceptually, there are no heroes in baseball - there's just the team.
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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 do like the word timeless. That's a great word.
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I wouldn't go into the studio if I didn't have a band who's ready, willing, and able.
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Loneliness is the most compelling force in the universe.
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I've always been interested in an idea of boundless love - an impersonal, big love.
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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 I try to do a lot of things to weed out casual fans.
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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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I don't live anywhere, so that's what's fun about tours.
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I don't like going to the studio. It just seems too cold. There's no crowd to react to, or share anything with it's just talking into a microphone that's going into a computer.
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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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