Ezra Furman Quotes
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It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
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There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
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We are paying the price for living longer, collecting degenerative diseases along the way. Cancer is only one. Others are heart and brain diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinsons.
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I tour with a piano, actually. Luckily I am able to hire people that deal with it completely and magically a piano appears on stage and then magically disappears when I leave.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him and contrived.
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Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism.
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I hate recording all the shows for the week in one day, because I want to be able to mention current events and pop culture. If Madonna punches Britney in the face today, I want to reference that on 'Wine Library TV' tomorrow. Monday's episode is always the best, because it's hot off the press.
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I grew up in Synagogue in the boys' choir. We didn't listen to music in the house; only at temple. Then I went to a mostly African American high school on the South Side of Chicago and joined a gospel choir.
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A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often surprised when I say that I consider myself an optimist, but an optimist dressed in the robes of a realist.
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It was sort of that in-between area when people don't talk about their personal lives. That's the kind of life I think Kerry would be living now if it weren't for the Lopez character sort of outing her.
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But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.
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You should never feel comfortable. There is something wrong if you are. You should always feel under threat, on the edge of your seat and pushing yourself. Win one and you want to win more. It's never-ending.
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You can be very famous without being a great actress, and that's not good for me.
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As a spectator, you get to watch everything, but I'd much rather be playing than watching. I'll have time to watch later in my career.
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There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.
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I never participated in far-reaching political decisions, since I never belonged to the circle of the closest associates of Adolf Hitler, neither was I consulted by Adolf Hitler on general political questions, nor did I ever take part in conferences about such problems.
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I do things because I enjoy it. That used to be my downfall, but now it's the upside.
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My father was a banker, but he was an independent spirit. He was a very good pianist and very much into music.
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I didn't want to feel constrained, so I took on the Mutants.
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When I was three years old, one of the first albums I ever heard was Michael Jackson's 'Off the Wall.'
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Once we begin to make our churches safety zones in a military-style approach, we're going to lose something of the character of our places of worship.
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You have to make a character of yourself if you're going to be known to strangers.
