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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: 46
Born: 1977
Born: November 13
Composer
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Singer-Songwriter
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California
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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 want to make something that's useful to someone, somewhere.
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It's hard to make out the difference between insults and bad advice.
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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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A baseball team is like a band. Because, conceptually, there are no heroes in baseball - there's just the team.
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It's not my way to talk about my feelings. They're impudent to myself, so it wouldn't make any sense if I tried to explain them to anyone else. I've never been to therapy - not interested in it.
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I don't think I'm a particularly somber human being.
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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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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 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 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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I don't live anywhere, so that's what's fun about tours.
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Folk art has never been much about politics it's about action and utility.
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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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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'm not trying to write for the masses. I don't care.
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