Ezra Furman Quotes
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I had no intention of becoming a performer, and yet under miraculous circumstances I was brought into the music industry fold. If divine powers hadn't intervened, I'd still be living in China working in some area of Sino-American comparative law.
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Music is all about leadership and there ain't really a lot of leaders.
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Basically hated everything made in the '80s, music television - it was really about the '90s for me. 'Encino Man' was a big hit. 'Robin Hood: Men in Tights.'
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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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I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.
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I was a big music fan, but I never bought a bunch of records or was very educated, I guess, on who was who or what was what.
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No matter what went down, music was always going to be a part of my life. What ultimately happened is that, over a period of time, I just kind of looked around and when like, 'Wow! I'm actually making a living doing this.'
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If you do write down your passwords, don't make it obvious which password corresponds to which account. Even better, write the passwords incorrectly and make up an easy rule for fixing them. You could decide to add 1 to each number in your password, so that 2x6Y is written as 3x7Y.
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I am not scared of anyone. I will write and publish my books.
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Having a simple career as a musician who liked music was good enough for me.
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I'm friends with Dierks Bentley. Aside from that, I don't really know anybody else in the country music field, really. I've met the Lady Antebellum people and I met Marty Stuart briefly once. He's really nice, but I don't know any of them, really.
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Dealing with those personalities and the people who run this music thing has been most challenging. It's hard to really communicate things to people who run a business yet forget the nature of the business. They only look at the bottom line and the financial return, you know, they forget what it is they're packaging. It's art.
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I've made sure that in any situation and with any record label, I'm allowed to write my own music.
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I always have music playing in my studio when I design. It really gets me in the mood and allows me to focus.
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Beautiful film music can be made relevant to any period.
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Where words fail, music speaks.
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I like that I don't have to conform to the normal women-in-music-selling-sex-appeal thing.
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I always thought I'd write about my dad, at some point, ... I didn't think it would be like this, but it arrived like this. I'd been listening to a lot of Garrison Keillor at the time. I love that simple story that ends on a grace note and you go, 'Wow, I'm just happy to be alive right now.' That was the feeling I was chasing.
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‘And shove him into a dungeon with dripping walls and see to it that he is well gnawed by rats.’
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People said I couldn't gig, and I proved them wrong.
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I will grab any opportunity I can to learn something new.
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I love it when people write rapturously about music they love.
