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Loneliness is the most compelling force in the universe.

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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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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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Lyrics are my racket music is play - the fluff stuff.
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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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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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People take things a little too personal. I write these songs, and they're experiments with thoughts. That's it. I'm not a teacher.
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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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I'm not trying to write for the masses. I don't care.
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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 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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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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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 think a master craftsman is someone who is unpretentious. He has a physical object in front of him and, while he works with a higher aim, he doesn't let his personality get in the way of his art. It's simply about the task at hand and to make it as functional and necessary to the world as he can.
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It's hard to make out the difference between insults and bad advice.
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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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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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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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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've always thought about myself as somewhat of a folk musician. I just write words.
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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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