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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.

Cass McCombs

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Cass McCombs
Age: 46
Born: 1977
Born: November 13
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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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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 don't live anywhere, so that's what's fun about tours.
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It's hard to make out the difference between insults and bad advice.
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I want to make something that's useful to someone, somewhere.
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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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Lyrics are my racket music is play - the fluff stuff.
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I do like the word timeless. That's a great word.
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I don't think I'm a particularly somber human being.
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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 wouldn't go into the studio if I didn't have a band who's ready, willing, and able.
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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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This is rock'n'roll, not classical music. It's about people working together.
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As long as there are a few people there, I can lose myself, which is the ultimate goal. And that's happening more and more the non-musical world is becoming less and less interesting to me.
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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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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 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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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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I think I try to do a lot of things to weed out casual fans.
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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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