Ezra Furman Quotes
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You have to make a character of yourself if you're going to be known to strangers.
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I think most of the work of songwriting is thinking of great phrases - I'm addicted, always on the hunt for a really great phrase.
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Jews like to write and sing. In America, a lot of us have been eager to show that we're part of American culture. But it all goes back to King David writing Psalms.
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I've been writing songs since I was a teenager, so one kind of song I've written a lot is about, I don't know, teen angst feelings - feeling unsure of yourself and immature.
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I think I'm gradually becoming a more politically aware person.
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I just don't care that much about the band name. I'm not so precious about it. The Harpoons were different people, but The Boy-Friends were and are the same people as The Visions. I changed it to The Visions when we made 'Transangelic Exodus' because I guess we didn't feel so friendly and boyish anymore.
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Once you admit how bad it feels to live in a broken society, you can start to resist it, and imagine a better one.
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I'm interested in God. I'm not interested in religion for religion's sake.
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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 wrote 'My Teeth Hurt' in April 2018 when my teeth hurt and I didn't have dental insurance.
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Desperate times make for desperate songs.
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To have knowledge of Judaism and to be a religious Jew or an interested Jew, is to have a doorway into a worldview that is entirely alien to the rest of the world's worldview.
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People get stigmatised for their bodies and for their differences. Then those people become very vulnerable.
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I am frustrated at misconceptions of me, and being cast in a role.
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I first got into music when I heard punk, and it was saying maybe it's OK if you don't live up to the expectations various authorities have for you.
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The first music I loved on my own was punk.
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More visibility is more power, but more vulnerability.
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I love it when people write rapturously about music they love.
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It's a good feeling to not tell people what's going on.
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If you're trying to deal with being a marginalized person and trying to confront a larger population that isn't the same as you, you can be friendly about it, and invite everybody in, or you can be angry about it and be hostile and attack the systems that you want to destabilize.
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We spent a lot of time making 'Transangelic Exodus' and toward the end of it, my ability and my love for music - that is, just garage music, direct and immediate - started to feel neglected.
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I want to make the greatest record ever made. It's the only thing I can think about.
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Judaism is a way of thinking, more than anything else, that I think is entirely distinct, and the more you know of it, the more you can enter into that kind of thinking.
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Some part of me hopes for a guardian angel to protect me and other people who need protection.