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I've always thought about myself as somewhat of a folk musician. I just write words.

Cass McCombs

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Cass McCombs
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: November 13
Composer
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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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I've always been interested in an idea of boundless love - an impersonal, big love.
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Lyrics are my racket music is play - the fluff stuff.
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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 don't know about timeless. I actually think most of what I do is completely modern, but universally modern. Who decides what timeless even means? Are the things that we consider timeless now going to, in fact, be considered timeless in 300 years? Probably not.
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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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Opinions only carry weight in the second or third person.
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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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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 want to make something that's useful to someone, somewhere.
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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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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 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. This is a transitory world we're all spirits just looking for love and finding it and holding on.
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This is rock'n'roll, not classical music. It's about people working together.
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I write for myself, and I write for my friends and people who I have a connection with. I try to give some dignity to peoples' lifestyles that tend to be ignored.
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I think I like singing when I'm singing live. It's just in the studio when it's a drag.
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I don't think I'm a particularly somber human being.
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