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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
Universe
Force
Compelling
Loneliness

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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 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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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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As it turns out, it's really expensive to make movies, much more than records.
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It's just a joy to be able to work with a lot of different musicians. When you play with great musicians, whether they're schooled or self-taught, they keep you on your toes.
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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 think I'm a particularly somber human being.
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People just wanna see someone talking about themselves constantly. I'm not interested in that.
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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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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 want to make something that's useful to someone, somewhere.
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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 don't live anywhere, so that's what's fun about tours.
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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 don't need to control anything. Even with romantic partnerships, I don't need to control anyone.
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This is rock'n'roll, not classical music. It's about people working together.
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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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