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I don't live anywhere, so that's what's fun about tours.

Cass McCombs

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Cass McCombs
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: November 13
Composer
Musician
Record Producer
Singer-Songwriter
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California
Tours
Anywhere
Fun
Live

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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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Opinions only carry weight in the second or third person.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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It's hard to make out the difference between insults and bad advice.
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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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It's not my way to talk about my feelings. They're impudent to myself, so it wouldn't make any sense if I tried to explain them to anyone else. I've never been to therapy - not interested in it.
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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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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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I've always thought about myself as somewhat of a folk musician. I just write words.
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I think I like singing when I'm singing live. It's just in the studio when it's a drag.
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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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When I'm trying to write a song for someone else, you can only see anything through your own eyes.
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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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