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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.

Cass McCombs

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Cass McCombs
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: November 13
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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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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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It's the stupidest thing of all time, going on tour. It deteriorates the soul, but it's fun.
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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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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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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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Loneliness is the most compelling force in the universe.
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I've always been interested in an idea of boundless love - an impersonal, big love.
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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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Lyrics are my racket music is play - the fluff stuff.
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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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I wouldn't go into the studio if I didn't have a band who's ready, willing, and able.
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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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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'm not trying to write for the masses. I don't care.
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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 think I try to do a lot of things to weed out casual fans.
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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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