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Loneliness is the most compelling force in the universe.

Cass McCombs

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Cass McCombs
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: November 13
Composer
Musician
Record Producer
Singer-Songwriter
Concord
California
Compelling
Loneliness
Universe
Force

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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 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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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 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 wouldn't go into the studio if I didn't have a band who's ready, willing, and able.
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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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I've always been interested in an idea of boundless love - an impersonal, big love.
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Folk art has never been much about politics it's about action and utility.
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As it turns out, it's really expensive to make movies, much more than records.
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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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I've always thought about myself as somewhat of a folk musician. I just write words.
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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 don't live anywhere, so that's what's fun about tours.
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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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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 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'm trying to write a song for someone else, you can only see anything through your own eyes.
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I don't think I'm a particularly somber human being.
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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 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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