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The Bible was so revolutionary and against all that came before it. It was a force for siding with the oppressed and a rebellion against hierarchical, ancient societies. Now it's institutionalized and all the life has been sucked out of it.
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I love it when people write rapturously about music they love. Ezra Furman Love Music People About I love obsessive fandom because I'm an obsessive fan who flips out over music.
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We need a lot more visibility of queer people in public life. People gotta get used to it.
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I had so many secrets and so much social repression throughout my life. I guess I'm just a shy person and feel like my true self is unacceptable to most people.
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Sometimes there's a day where I don't feel good being out in the world, and I feel unsafe in the world in general. And an anxiety about just showing up in the world. It's kind of irrational, but people do say things to me out in the street about how I'm dressed.
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We punk fans have so much energy to give to the fight against injustice, i.e. the abuse of the poor by the rich, i.e. climate change.
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The Velvet Underground is probably the best band that's ever existed, assuredly the best American one.
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What really is wild about rock 'n' roll? Nothing. It's so banal and so part of corporate culture. It threatens to lose all its life.
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Just being gender non-conforming opens you to trouble from strangers. And violence.
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My two most fervent interests are pop music and traditional Judaism. Hell of a pair of fervent interests.
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I feel like my consignment and fear from people pushed me to become a performer.
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Far from being a showbiz gimmick, for me dressing as I please has signalled the end of a lifelong performance of straightforward masculinity.
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I've always been drawn to ambiguity in pop music.
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I always felt like I had a punk album waiting to be made.
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One of my goals in making music is to make the world seem bigger, and life seem larger.
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I'm certainly not interested in religion for religion's sake or for some kind of structure or stabilizing force. Religion is supposed to be for God's sake and God is an unpredictable, wild thing.
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I was a suburban kid who fancied myself somehow intellectual. I was into punk rock but I couldn't get into the subcultural signifiers of dyed hair, safety pins and torn denim. Being a punk seemed like a new set of rules that I wasn't interested in having to follow.
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I'm an amateur at music and an amateur at most things. I like the idea of offering some music and some records and a website to people who feel perplexed.
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We take a lot of inspiration from punk rock and early rock 'n' roll from the '50s and early '60s.
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I honestly feel like I've been mostly toiling in obscurity until a little bit after 'Day Of the Dog' came out.
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I like going to bed early and getting up early, but that doesn't happen on tour.
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I don't really believe in trying to erase every Woody Allen movie from history. For one thing, that's kind of unfair to all the people who worked on those movies or albums or whatever it is. What did they do wrong to have their work erased from culture?
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You have to be an anti-racist to not be racist. Because it's just a cultural tide that will pull you into it if you're not swimming against it.
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I'm in this effort to unify my life and to live day to day in a disciplined way, to be real at all times, not just in front of people, or not just in a synagogue.
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