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It's the stupidest thing of all time, going on tour. It deteriorates the soul, but it's fun.
Cass McCombs
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Cass McCombs
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: November 13
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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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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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I'm not trying to write for the masses. I don't care.
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It's hard to make out the difference between insults and bad advice.
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The writing of the record didn't take long, because I just have a huge stack of papers and I just pluck from the stack. It took a long time because it's very expensive to make records in fact, I think it's a complete rip-off.
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I've always thought about myself as somewhat of a folk musician. I just write words.
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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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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 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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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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Opinions only carry weight in the second or third person.
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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.
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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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Loneliness is the most compelling force in the universe.
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People just wanna see someone talking about themselves constantly. I'm not interested in that.
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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 want to make something that's useful to someone, somewhere.
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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 don't think I'm a particularly somber human being.
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I love being lost! I don't need to control anything. Even with romantic partnerships, I don't need to control anyone. 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.
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