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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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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If I had my choice, I'd pick a song that tells a story every time. There is a great deal of pleasure in doing the vocal on a number that you can put feeling into.
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I could not extrapolate some emotion from any song after 1997 so I bought a drum machine and popped pills. The pink ones make me funny like elephants!
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He that is purified by love is pure; and he that is absorbed in the Beloved and hath abandoned all else is a Sufi.Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah.
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Perhaps I'm not a good actor, but I would be even worse at doing anything else.
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'Glee Project' and 'Glee' have the same spirit, but they're both harder in their own ways. With 'Glee Project,' there's more pressure because you're being judged in everything you do. When you film 'Glee,' you go to the studio and have an off day, and it's OK - you're still going to be there; you take as many chances as you need.
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The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.
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When I'm trying to write a song for someone else, you can only see anything through your own eyes.
