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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
Musician
Record Producer
Singer-Songwriter
Concord
California
Make
Useful
Somewhere
Someone
Something

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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 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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As it turns out, it's really expensive to make movies, much more than records.
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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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It's hard to make out the difference between insults and bad advice.
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All these biopics and biographies and people gossiping about so-and-so's drug abuse or who's sleeping with who, it's just a bunch of nonsense.
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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've always thought about myself as somewhat of a folk musician. I just write words.
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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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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. 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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When I'm trying to write a song for someone else, you can only see anything through your own eyes.
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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 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 do like the word timeless. That's a great word.
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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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I don't need to control anything. Even with romantic partnerships, I don't need to control anyone.
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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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I don't live anywhere, so that's what's fun about tours.
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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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