Ezra Furman Quotes
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More visibility is more power, but more vulnerability.
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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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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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A lot of bands break through with their third record: the White Stripes, the Clash, the Replacements.
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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 believe an authentic Judaism would legislate total equality for queer people.
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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 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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I could write a joke song really easily, but I think something that might be true for my generation is that there's a certain irony or detachedness expected of us, even though we really feel sincere. So the only way to sincerity is through a joke.
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It's a good feeling to not tell people what's going on.
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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 don't like the notion that artists have a responsibility to be political.
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I'm a big fan of Louis CK - I think he's a master of standup.
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I am frustrated at misconceptions of me, and being cast in a role.
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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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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 think of myself as someone who's trying to be a great songwriter and a great performer. And I mean really great.
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I grew up attending a Conservative day school, Solomon Schechter, until I was about 14, and going to a Reconstructionist synagogue.
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I think I'm gradually becoming a more politically aware person.
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I love it when people write rapturously about music they love.
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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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Desperate times make for desperate songs.
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There is something embarrassing about asking for money, but if I hadn't done that, I would have not continued to be a professional musician.
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I wear what I want to wear and appear on stage as myself.