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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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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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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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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I like that I don't have to conform to the normal women-in-music-selling-sex-appeal thing.
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It's all about music, because music is basically what's... been my avenue out of maybe being involved in things I shouldn't be.
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I just wanted to release an album of piano music for music's sake. I'm not expecting to sell millions of albums. It's was just nice to be able to sit down at an acoustic piano and make some music.
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I want to expand jazz; I don't want to keep the audience limited. I want to reach people who have never come to a jazz concert before. One way to do that is by making records that have a lot of different kinds of music on them.
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Ornette Coleman is a real musician. He takes all of the things he's thinking about in the world - which is a whole universe upon universe - and translates this into music.
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In Britain, we've tended to replace the kind of architectural culture valued in much of Europe with an in-flight magazine lifestyle - all branding, marketing and 'accessibility', a word that usually means dumbing-down.
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Religion is everywhere. It is in the mind, in the heart, in the love you put into what you do.
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'stay as strong as you can and during the times you can't, let other people be strong for you.'
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I love it when people write rapturously about music they love.
