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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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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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It's hard to make out the difference between insults and bad advice.
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This is rock'n'roll, not classical music. It's about people working together.
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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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I don't need to control anything. Even with romantic partnerships, I don't need to control anyone.
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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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As it turns out, it's really expensive to make movies, much more than records.
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Loneliness is the most compelling force in the universe.
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When I'm trying to write a song for someone else, you can only see anything through your own eyes.
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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. This is a transitory world we're all spirits just looking for love and finding it and holding on.
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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 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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I project love, music and love, and I pray for peace. A good song cuts straight to the heart sometimes it doesn't need to be too many lines - of course, I do love a good story.
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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 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 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 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 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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Making music and art is about expressing something that's universally human, maybe even beyond human, at best.
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