Ezra Furman Quotes

I first got into music when I heard punk, and it was saying maybe it's OK if you don't live up to the expectations various authorities have for you.

Ezra Furman

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• Punk
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• No press, no television. If my mom calls and says, 'Did you hear about?' I don't want to know nothing about anything that is going on in relation to music. I shut it all off.

  

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• The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true.

  

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• Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.

  

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• I first came to Russia because of the culture, literature and music... and my interest in the 19th-century revolutionary spirit of Herzen, Bakunin and Kropotkin. Russia is a wonderful place to bring new clowns because Russians give back a wonderful response.

  

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• I was never really interested in an operatic post, but I took on the Bastille because it seemed a unique opportunity to build an opera ensemble from scratch, and to deal with all the disciplines that go into opera - the music, the staging and the singing - in an interrelated way.

  

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• I don't listen to Bollywood music much. But yes, I listen to Indian music quite often, and other non- film music.

  

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• I don't like the idea that in music, clothes, taste or anything, we are limited to a certain style, because we need to maintain an identity, maybe between some subculture group. Hopefully, all those walls break down, and music is just music.

  

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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'm not trying to become a pop artist, and I'm not trying to make sure I stay a country artist. I'm just trying to make sure I make the best music I can, according to my way.

  

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• I do listen to a lot of music, but I don't listen when I'm writing.

  

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• Great music is its own movie, already. And the challenge, as a music fan, is to keep the song as powerful as it wants to be, to not tamper with it and to somehow give it a home.

  

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• Music was my way of keeping people from looking through and around me. I wanted the heavies to know I was around.

  

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• No one ever took music away from me, but I’m damned if it ever sounds quite as good as it used to when I was twenty.

  

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• I always play songs that are very based in folk music.

  

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• It's always so rewarding, gratifying to me, as an artist and a writer, to see how this music gets more important for a lot of people as time goes by. And it's not just nostalgia. It's a feeling of it's really relevant to their lives, even though it's 20 or 25 years old or more.

  

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• Music tells you about the artist and what they were thinking about at the time, because the person has to think about it to sing it.

  

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• We have that storytelling history in country and bluegrass and old time and folk music, blues - all those things that combine to make up the genre. It was probably storytelling before it was songwriting, as far as country music is concerned. It's fun to be a part of that and tip the hat to that. You know, and keep that tradition alive.

  

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• My vision for G.O.O.D. Music is just carrying on with the tradition of putting out high-quality music, high-quality art. G.O.O.D. Music is entrenched in the culture of hip-hop. It's entrenched in the culture, period.

  

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• It's very important that the music has a sense of adventure to it, and that it's done by the seat of your pants. There's a kind of nervy element about it.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
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• I thought about going onto the first one, Pop Idol. My mum was saying, 'Go on!' But I decided not to. 'The X Factor,' though, doesn't really seem to be a show about musical talent anymore.

  

  Paolo Nutini

• The moon of Mahomet Arose, and it shall set; While, blazoned as on heaven's immortal noon, The cross leads generations on.

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
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• I first got into music when I heard punk, and it was saying maybe it's OK if you don't live up to the expectations various authorities have for you.

  

  Ezra Furman
  • Music
  • Expectations
  • Punk