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.
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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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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 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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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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I have a huge appreciation for music in general, but my roots are country.
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The Internet is overrated. It's much smaller an innovation than people think it is. I don't think it's changed the way anybody makes music.
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I want to make my music a genre that people can immediately identify: something that never existed.
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One of the core reasons for creating 'Station to Station' was to provide a space for exploration and cultural friction between different mediums. It should be natural for mediums like music, film and art to cross over, and we wanted to empower that process.
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It was really terrific but Foreigner was nothing like Yes and that style did not suit our music.
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I feel like a Mac store! I have a Canadian iPhone, an American iPhone and an iPad. I'm constantly downloading music to iTunes.
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Also, because people like to multitask, in a way if you've got a bit of music on in the background and the lyrical content is making you want to listen to it, then that would probably put you off the texting you wanted to do. I think people like things that just make that right kind of noise, but leave your brain free to do something else.
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The music that I've made in the past has had strong contemporary country roots, but I think moving on in music, I will branch out from that a bit.
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I think we make the music that we make. Yes, we are aware of music climate, and we are all avid fans of listening, collecting and discovering music.
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I feel comfortable at 154 lbs.
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If you watched companies such as Sony and Samsung grow, they focused first on features and then on industrial design, which made their products look and feel better.
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What Obamacare does is decreases choices and drives up cost.
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What I'm working on is for people to be able to say that Kippenberger had this really good mood.
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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.
