Ezra Furman Quotes
A lot of bands break through with their third record: the White Stripes, the Clash, the Replacements.
Quotes to Explore
-
I wanna create a character that's really memorable... like Julia Roberts did in 'Pretty Woman.'
-
Like some of my other movies, 'Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes' is also a very political film, and many critics still consider it even the best of all the Apes movies, because it conveys a series of political viewpoints.
-
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
-
Accepting your own mortality is like eating your vegetables: You may not want to do it, but it's good for you.
-
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
-
An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused.
-
That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it - is that you don't even have to be a player to lose.
-
The best way to keep water prices down is to avoid unnecessary increases in costs.
-
During the day, I don't wear much makeup; I only put on makeup for the show.
-
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
-
I suppose I could have sat back and pitied myself. For a time I wondered if I'd ever be able to go on to a stage and perform again. After a couple of weeks I began to feel I could fight my way back to health if I put my mind to it. I thought to myself: 'Pity never did anybody any good. Go on. Patsy, show 'em what you can do'
-
We need not be intimidated by the wine snob because we know that, in the last analysis, he is only putting on a front. He may know more than we do, but how little he knows in comparison with what there is to know Wine, a hobby as fascinating and as human as one can find. One of the most fascinating aspects of the wine-hobby is the extent to which you learn all the time.
-
But when you want to come to work, it makes things that much better. Mentally, when you're at work, it doesn't feel like work. When you take the fun part away from basketball, that's a problem.
-
As a kitten does what all other kittens do, so a child wants to do what other children do, with a wanting that is as powerful as it is mindless. Since we human beings have to learn what we do, we have to start out that way, but human mindfulness begins where that wish to be the same leaves off.
-
I think that there's a proliferation of music that is done entirely in the bedroom for an Internet audience, but there's no way in hell that you could actually kill off a live show, and its importance in the creation of music - it's just impossible.
-
My father passed away a few days before my election. This man, an African American born to a poor single mother in 1936 in the South, would worry in the last years of his life that he had better life chances when he was growing up than a young man born in the same circumstances would have today.
-
"Normal science" means research firmly based upon one or more past scientific achievements, achievements that some particular scientific community acknowledges for a time as supplying the foundation for its further practice.
-
It's better to not set your expectations high. And that's what happens when you have a long career - not every album is going to be record setting.
-
If we are to make the most of the opportunities ahead we need a bold break with the past.
-
When we were making the record, I just decided, at the last second. I thought, "This song ["Ordinary World"] makes a lot of sense, being on the album [Revolution Radio]."
-
A lot of bands break through with their third record: the White Stripes, the Clash, the Replacements.
