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When I'm trying to write a song for someone else, you can only see anything through your own eyes.
Cass McCombs
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Cass McCombs
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: November 13
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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 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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I do like the word timeless. That's a great word.
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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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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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As it turns out, it's really expensive to make movies, much more than records.
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People just wanna see someone talking about themselves constantly. I'm not interested in that.
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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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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 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 wouldn't go into the studio if I didn't have a band who's ready, willing, and able.
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Folk art has never been much about politics it's about action and utility.
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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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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 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 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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Loneliness is the most compelling force in the universe.
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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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I want to make something that's useful to someone, somewhere.
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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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