Ezra Furman Quotes
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I don't really like to explain my songs.
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There are times where I am trying to make the big play before I even catch the football.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
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I will say that a lot of songs that I've written are from my own personal experiences which are special to me.
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I've cheated the Grim Reaper more times than anyone I know.
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I should have died in ambushes a hundred times.
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With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.
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I don't have many easy songs.
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The songs I love to sing are story songs, from Yiddish songs to Tom Waits.
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I love the smell of a theater. The old rooms and the carpet and all that stuff. I love to tell stories. Even before I was doing music, I saw myself as a director. So most of my songs come in a play form, you know, where there are characters and stories, so I like to go beyond just the song sometimes.
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I auditioned for 'Game of Thrones' seven times! Loads of times.
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Dad really had little to do with the songs, except to perform them.
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My pump-up songs before I compete are not the usual. They're more girly songs. I love 'The Climb' by Miley Cyrus. It's about the journey and savoring every moment. I have 'The World's Greatest' by R. Kelly on my playlist, too.
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We became the songs we wrote.
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My inspiration comes from God, so I always have to be open, kind of like being an antenna. I like to write songs people love.
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I don't think there's anything anybody's doing that the Beatles didn't at least try at some point.
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It's so amazing to hear a crowd of people singing one of your songs. It's the best feeling.
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If I had been told to get out of the street as a teenager, there would have been a distinct possibility that I might have smarted off. But, I wouldn't have expected to be shot.
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People don't truly respond to something until they see the direct consequences.
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If we are ever to cross the 100-nano barrier in electronics, we need to develop nano structures that let electrons move through, as they do through wires and semiconductors. And these structures must survive in the real world of air, water, boiling temperatures.
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These Seattle Seahawks wide receivers have been called pedestrian, they've been called no-namers, but they always come up with the big play.
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Though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft let by the nose with gold.
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Desperate times make for desperate songs.
