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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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Folk art has never been much about politics it's about action and utility.
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Making music and art is about expressing something that's universally human, maybe even beyond human, at best.
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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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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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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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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 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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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 don't think I'm a particularly somber human being.
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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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It's the stupidest thing of all time, going on tour. It deteriorates the soul, but it's fun.
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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 think I try to do a lot of things to weed out casual fans.
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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 don't live anywhere, so that's what's fun about tours.
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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 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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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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