Cass McCombs Quotes
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Musicians wake up and create a more loving community by creating heavier music.
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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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Dead men always have the last laugh. They win. They're dead. You can't hurt their feelings anymore.
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I think I prefer singing in falsetto. I like the way it sounds. It doesn't sound like my natural voice. It sounds like a character.
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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'm making music with my friends. It's fun. It should be fun. You shouldn't make music if it isn't fun.
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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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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 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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Even if I'm writing music, it's with a lyric in mind, to communicate some kind of feeling.
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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 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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I was just a folk singer. I cut my teeth on the streets, you know.
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Thank god we don't know a lot about William Shakespeare or Moses or Homer or Lautréamont. These are the best guys we got, and their art is powerful because they're mysterious. Once biographical information contaminates your consciousness, it's impossible to erase it and look at someone's work the same way again.
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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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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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I don't think music is my job - I don't think about it that way, because I don't really get paid. There's no paycheck at the end; it's more of a 'whatever is left over' kind of situation.
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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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Music is the marriage of the feelings of the living to the wisdom of the dead.
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I want to make something that's useful to someone, somewhere.
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I don't like the word "happy." I wouldn't want to use it that context. I enjoy writing songs, it's a really good challenge, it tickles me. It's a wonderful way to engage with your surroundings, through poetry and songs.
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I don't really write for an album. I just write songs whenever I feel like it, whenever they come to me. It's all a complete accident.
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Lyrics are my racket; music is play - the fluff stuff.
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It doesn't mean that I'm overly enthusiastic about much music. Except the people that really touch me. It has to touch me, it has to grab a hold of me, I'm not looking for anything in particular.
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People just wanna see someone talking about themselves constantly. I'm not interested in that.
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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 have been singing as long as I can remember. I used to be in choir; I used to do musical theater. I'd prefer not to sing my own songs, but there you have it.
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You can't just explain a joke. Either it isn't funny, or the person just totally missed the punchline.
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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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This is rock'n'roll, not classical music. It's about people working together.
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