Cass McCombs Quotes
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We're proud to be lifetime musicians and a band that lives like a band and loves the music and gives our lives to it.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.
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A lot of the players that I play with who are Canadian, they call me Patty. Before then, I never heard it. I didn't mind Patty.
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Being on 'The Vampire Diaries' feels almost like a game you play when you're a kid. When I was a kid, I used to have to take the garbage out at night on Wednesdays. I lived out in the country. I'd take the garbage out, and I used to pretend that I was the only person in the whole world, except for one other person, and he was looking for me.
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The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.
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You always care about your teammates, and you care about the game.
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Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.
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We live in a world where people think that finding a passion is so rare that if you find one you're the luckiest person on the planet, and the possibility of finding two is just bizarre. It isn't. We have multiple passions.
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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.
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I didn't come from the elites. I didn't come from the Northeast or from San Francisco. I came from a southern Ohio steel town, and it's a town that's really struggling in a lot of ways, ways that are indicative of the broader struggles of America's working class.
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I'm Bam Margera. And I feel like kicking my dad's butt all day today.
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I think that the poorest of the poor... look up to wealthy and successful Indians with some degree of respect and pride.
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That's absolutely one of my main goals, to have a number one on Billboard. That's a big thing for me. That means people are buying and listening to your music.
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God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.
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I believe in peace-building in any kind of platform, be it a political platform like Parliament or negotiations like peace-building negotiations.
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How alike are the groans of love, to those of the dying.
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I remember people telling me that at 5 1/2 minutes long, 'Lightning Crashes' would never be a hit song.
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It's being in the right place at the right time and taking advantage of your opportunities.
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In Denmark, when you marry, whether you have $1 million or just $10, you share it.
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Karma's not like a bank . Make a deposit, take a withdrawal.
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I think for new artists the hardest thing is putting the face with a name. People maybe heard our song on the radio or something but until they get several impressions of who you are - from whatever it is, whether TV or a live show, I feel like they don't quite connect the dots.
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I moved to Chicago in the early 1990s and I studied improvisation there. I learned some rules that I try to apply still today: Listen. Say yes. Live in the moment. Make sure you play with people who have your back. Make big choices early and often. Don't start a scene where two people are talking about jumping out of a plane. Start the scene having already jumped. If you're scared, look into your partner's eyes — you will feel better.
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I don't live anywhere, so that's what's fun about tours.
