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I'm not trying to write for the masses. I don't care.
Cass McCombs
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Cass McCombs
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: November 13
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I do like the word timeless. That's a great word.
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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've always thought about myself as somewhat of a folk musician. I just write words.
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Folk art has never been much about politics it's about action and utility.
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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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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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Lyrics are my racket music is play - the fluff stuff.
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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 want to make something that's useful to someone, somewhere.
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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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As it turns out, it's really expensive to make movies, much more than records.
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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 been interested in an idea of boundless love - an impersonal, big love.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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I project love, music and love, and I pray for peace. A good song cuts straight to the heart sometimes it doesn't need to be too many lines - of course, I do love a good story.
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