Cass McCombs Quotes - Page 3

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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.

  Cass McCombs

  Art, Powerful, Guy

  Source: pitchfork.com

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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.

  Cass McCombs

  Sleep, People, Drug

  Source: pitchfork.com

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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

  Perspective, Easy, Individual

  Source: pitchfork.com

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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.

  Cass McCombs

  Art, Artist, Disgusted

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Beggars can't be choosers. We don't have all the money in the world. So anyone who wants to be in the band and be broke - that's their own death wish.

  Cass McCombs

  Wish, World, Broke

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I miss working. It's real, you know? But I don't know anything but songwriting, and I don't even know that. I didn't go to school; the only thing I know how to do is this. The only thing that I know is that I know nothing.

  Cass McCombs

  Real, School, Missing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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.

  Cass McCombs

  Art, Thinking, Personality

  Source: pitchfork.com

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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.

  Cass McCombs

  Character, Thinking, Voice

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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.

  Cass McCombs

  Thinking, Play, Musician

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I've always thought about myself as somewhat of a folk musician. I just write words.

  Cass McCombs

  Writing, Musician, Folks

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm not trying to write for the masses. I don't care.

  Cass McCombs

  Writing, Trying, Care

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think I try to do a lot of things to weed out casual fans.

  Cass McCombs

  Weed, Thinking, Trying

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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.

  Cass McCombs

  Baha, Taught, Used

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• A lot of religious texts make for good reading. That's why they hold up.

  Cass McCombs

  Religious, Reading, Good Reading

  Source: pitchfork.com

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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.

  Cass McCombs

  Song, Teacher, Writing

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Making music and art is about expressing something that's universally human, maybe even beyond human, at best.

  Cass McCombs

  Art, Art Is, Humans

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• You can't just explain a joke. Either it isn't funny, or the person just totally missed the punchline.

  Cass McCombs

  Persons, Punchlines, Jokes

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When I'm trying to write a song for someone else, you can only see anything through your own eyes.

  Cass McCombs

  Song, Writing, Eye

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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.

  Cass McCombs

  Self, Play, Joy

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I hate my voice. I've never been comfortable singing.

  Cass McCombs

  Hate, Voice, Singing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Usually there's no specific reason for loneliness - it's a broad feeling.

  Cass McCombs

  Loneliness, Feelings, Reason

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Loneliness is the most compelling force in the universe.

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  Loneliness, Force, Compelling

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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.

  Cass McCombs

  Thinking, Vision, Trying

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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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  Interesting, Long, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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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.

  Cass McCombs

  Writing, Thinking, Long

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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