Ezra Furman Quotes
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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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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 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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I think I'm gradually becoming a more politically aware person.
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People get stigmatised for their bodies and for their differences. Then those people become very vulnerable.
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Learning that someone is gay, queer, trans, doesn't tell you much by itself. They could be any kind of person aside from that particular slice of identity.
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I don't like the notion that artists have a responsibility to be political.
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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'm interested in God. I'm not interested in religion for religion's sake.
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More visibility is more power, but more vulnerability.
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Some part of me hopes for a guardian angel to protect me and other people who need protection.
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Desperate times make for desperate songs.
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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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It's a good feeling to not tell people what's going on.
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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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The first music I loved on my own was punk.
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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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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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I wear what I want to wear and appear on stage as myself.
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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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I love it when people write rapturously about music they love.
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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.