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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I look at some of the songs I wrote years ago and I can't believe I wrote such crap.
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When you have made a thorough and reasonably long effort, to understand a thing, and still feel puzzled by it, stop, you will only hurt yourself by going on.
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The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity; moving beyond it necessitates intuition, which in turn configures new perspectives and conquers fears.
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In Bosnia, the case was there were white, blond-haired, blue-eyed Muslims who were being slaughtered and identified as Muslims. That really touched me.
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Desperate times make for desperate songs.
