Cass McCombs Quotes
When I'm trying to write a song for someone else, you can only see anything through your own eyes.
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I would love to see young writers come out of college and know there is a possibility to be a novelist.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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We played 'Girl in a Country Song' in front of Scott Borchetta, and he loved it.
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It took a long while for me to even put out a record because there were so many options of how to do a song, and in some respects, I'm never totally happy with the outcome.
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I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they're just listening to the song.
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I really like Ariana Grande, Jessie J, and Nicki Minaj's song, the 'Bang Bang' song. It's the new 'Lady Marmalade.' So good.
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I see the first lady as another means to keep a president from becoming isolated.
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I'll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.
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I just write mechanical things.
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To be rude to someone is not my nature.
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Some kids spent their allowance going to see 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'; I spent mine on a great-looking lamp I'd found at the flea market and a ceramic bowl from a neighborhood garage sale.
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One way in which 'Friends' did resemble 'Seinfeld' is that it really found its audience over the summer of 1995 in reruns. That's when the main title song, 'I'll Be There for You', by the Rembrandts, exploded, too.
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I didn't see myself as any advance guard, or feminist.
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Someone asked me the other day what it feels like to see all my 'old stuff' reappearing, at long last, in digital. And I had to smile because to me it doesn't feel like 'old stuff.'
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The environment around you shapes who you are. How you handle an emergency or how you react when someone is rude to you, that's you.
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We pushed our first record, 'Boomerang,' to different labels, but it was hard for them to see though the 'white guys singing R&B' thing.
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You hold the keys of change within you. You be the change you want to see.
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To see you naked is to recall the Earth.
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I see a face of love, Fair as sweet music when my heart was strong: Yea - art thou come again to me, great Song?' The face bent over him like silver night In long-remembered summers; that calm light Of days which shine in firmaments of thought, That past unchangeable, from change still wrought.
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If Rosa Parks had not refused to move to the back of the bus, you and I might never have heard of Dr. Martin Luther King.
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I've come out of seeing death and chosen to focus on the life that's sprouting everywhere, like flowers. And I want to help feed the flowers.
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There is always going to be that luxury customer out there. I have clients who buy $10,000 dresses and clients who buy $60 dresses. It's not so much about the money. Design is a mentality.
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He lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about, "I am looking for a human."
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When I'm trying to write a song for someone else, you can only see anything through your own eyes.
