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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.

Cass McCombs

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Cass McCombs
Age: 46
Born: 1977
Born: November 13
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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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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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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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The writing of the record didn't take long, because I just have a huge stack of papers and I just pluck from the stack. It took a long time because it's very expensive to make records in fact, I think it's a complete rip-off.
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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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A baseball team is like a band. Because, conceptually, there are no heroes in baseball - there's just the team.
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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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Folk art has never been much about politics it's about action and utility.
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I've always been interested in an idea of boundless love - an impersonal, big love.
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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 like singing when I'm singing live. It's just in the studio when it's a drag.
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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 the stupidest thing of all time, going on tour. It deteriorates the soul, but it's fun.
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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 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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Everyone wants to be well-loved and appreciated but, at the same time, there are some people that just don't want to be your friend, and there's nothing you can do or say to change 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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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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People just wanna see someone talking about themselves constantly. I'm not interested in that.
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