Cass McCombs Quotes
When I'm trying to write a song for someone else, you can only see anything through your own eyes.
Quotes to Explore
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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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The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.
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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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Our fielders have to catch a lot of balls, or at least deflect them to someone who can.
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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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Unless I move to a desert island with poor reception, I'll never stop speaking out!
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I love being in anything that's scary to people.
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There are no globalized, youth-led, grassroots social movements advocating for democratic culture across Muslim-majority societies. There is no equivalent of Al-Qaeda without the terrorism.
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India is a place where one of the great pleasures for a foreigner is that you're constantly surprised. Everywhere you look is something that is either funny, or very moving, but there is always so much that is so unexpected.
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If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.
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When I'm trying to write a song for someone else, you can only see anything through your own eyes.
