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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
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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This is rock'n'roll, not classical music. It's about people working together.
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I don't live anywhere, so that's what's fun about tours.
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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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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 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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Try to keep your mind. Try not to eat bad, try not to wake up with too bad of a hangover.
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I love songs because by nature they are concise they sum up. I try to use as few words as possible. It's usually funnier that way, anyway.
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People just wanna see someone talking about themselves constantly. I'm not interested in that.
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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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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've always been interested in an idea of boundless love - an impersonal, big love.
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I've always thought about myself as somewhat of a folk musician. I just write words.
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Loneliness is the most compelling force in the universe.
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I do like the word timeless. That's a great word.
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I took piano lessons when I was a little kid, but even before that, you're singing in the classroom and wherever. Gosh, children are always singing. But I took music lessons, some choir and things like that at school. I learned how to play the guitar when I was about 13... ancient history.
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I don't like going to the studio. It just seems too cold. There's no crowd to react to, or share anything with it's just talking into a microphone that's going into a computer.
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I want to make something that's useful to someone, somewhere.
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I think I try to do a lot of things to weed out casual fans.
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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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