Ezra Furman Quotes
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I've encountered a lot of people who sound like critics but very few who have substantive criticisms. There is a lot of skepticism, but it seems to be more a matter of inertia than it is of people having some real reason for thinking something else.
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When I was younger I used to pick things just to face the fear.
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I feel really lucky to get to do comedy, and music, at all. I want to do as much as I can.
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I don't want to sound like the old guy, but cynicism is a potential danger. It colors our way of looking at the world.
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I feel sorry for a culture that depends too much on delegating its musical expression to professionals. It is fine to have heroes, but we should do our own singing first, even if it is never heard beyond the shower curtain.
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Nobody leaves this band unless it's in a coffin.
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I think if Tottenham are going to be top four side, the fans and the club will need to get away from the philosophy of 'pretty football', that's got to go.
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Make the boy interested in natural history if you can; it is better than games; they encourage it in some schools.
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There is no crisis in cinema. There are negative periods. There are times when some films are received well and others aren't. The past teaches us that some films were received badly, while others go sailing on.
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A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; A viper is not more hateful.
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I have totally like an urbanite relationship to nature. I mean I'm not someone who hikes.
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I discovered surfing, which I absolutely fell in love with. That feels good and kind of keeps your body aligned, so does the salt water.
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If you love animals, don't eat them.
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People don't like the music that's out now, that's on their radio stations, and they want to hear something different, but they're just the audience. You know, people will keep the TV on even if a show is on that they hate - because, unfortunately, they've been programmed to do that. [But] they are really looking for something that's gonna speak to the world that they're living in. That's what people are looking for, but they're not finding it.
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In 1999, I just came out of putting out the song 'Vivrant Thing' and 'Breathe and Stop' off the 'Amplified' album. Clive Davis signed me to Arista.
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Hot funk, cold punk, even if it's old junk, it's still rock and roll to me.
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You always want an album to sound like its own little planet.
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I always felt like I had a punk album waiting to be made.
