Ezra Furman Quotes
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Ezra Furman And The Boy-Friends was a band with a specific mission - to be a really good rock'n'roll band. And we achieved it.
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If I can see the sunrise - and I usually don't - I like to. I'm a big fan of the sun.
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I am frustrated at misconceptions of me, and being cast in a role.
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I'm interested in God. I'm not interested in religion for religion's sake.
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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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It's always about staying competitive with myself... Popularity is something that may happen from time to time, and I don't trust it and I don't think it means too much. I'm going for greatness.
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I always maintain that artists do not have any responsibility to do anything except cause no harm and do whatever we want to do as artists.
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I get stage fright really bad sometimes, so touring has been hard on me in a lot of ways. But despite that, I love performing.
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I'm just grateful to people who are willing to admit how bad things feel for them.
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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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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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You know, a lot of people have an instinct to downplay the fact that they are performing and be, like, 'There is no theatre here. This is just me playing the songs.' At some point I just realised how much better it could be if you weren't shy about being a performer.
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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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It's a good feeling to not tell people what's going on.
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Part of what you hear when somebody says something awful to you is like, 'They're right, I look ridiculous, why am I dressed this way, I should go home and change.' For me that voice is always in my head, right around the corner.
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I thought as a kid, "Maybe I don't want to start a punk band necessarily. I just want to learn to be a great songwriter," and got really into trying to figure out how that could be possible.
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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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The first music I loved on my own was punk.
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I'm trying to be an activist, and I think of that as separate from my work as an artist. But it isn't.
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I'm a big fan of Louis CK - I think he's a master of standup.
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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'm going to make the music I wish someone else was making.
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I love it when people write rapturously about music they love.
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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.