Ezra Furman Quotes
I think of myself as a tomgirl. A boy who's girly in every presentational aspect. And I play guitar and write good songs.
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I write songs as honestly as I can without worrying about genres or labels. Sometimes I sing, and sometimes I rap, and sometimes I do something in between. I jump around on stage and don't care too much about how I look. I try to be myself even though I'm still figuring myself out.
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I've always tried to fight against, 'Oh, who's that small funny actress? Let's get her.'
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No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.
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When I was young my heart was young then, too. And anything that it would tell me, that's the thing that I would do.
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Commonplace objects are constantly changing… The pies, for example, we now see, are not going to be around forever. We are merely used to the idea that things do not change.
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A conscious decision to eliminate certain details and include selective bits of personal experiences or perceptual nuances, gives the painting more of a multi-dimension than when it is done directly as a visual recording. This results in a kind of abstraction... and thus avoids the pitfalls of mere decoration.
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You've committed no sins, just mistakes.
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Charisma is a sparkle in people that money can't buy. It's an invisible energy with visible effects.
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The ones who are successful are the ones who really want it. You have to have that inner drive otherwise it's not going to work out.
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Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed.
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I should not be judged by a standard that's not applied to everyone else.
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Success can lead to complacency, and complacency is the greatest enemy of success.
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There were opium-dens, where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the madness of sins that were new.
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I think that every moment you succumb to cynicism, you're taking energy away from change.
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I'm not advocating violence but I think somebody should shoot Simon Cowell.
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I think of myself as a tomgirl. A boy who's girly in every presentational aspect. And I play guitar and write good songs.
