Ezra Furman Quotes
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I'm a big fan of Louis CK - I think he's a master of standup.
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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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Listening to songs is like eating and writing songs is like vomiting. You're putting a ton of stuff in, it combines in unpredictable ways, and comes back out in a big mess.
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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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More visibility is more power, but more vulnerability.
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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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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 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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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'm interested in God. I'm not interested in religion for religion's sake.
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I think I'm gradually becoming a more politically aware person.
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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 love it when people write rapturously about music they love.
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I am frustrated at misconceptions of me, and being cast in a role.
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I wear what I want to wear and appear on stage as myself.
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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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Desperate times make for desperate songs.
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The first music I loved on my own was punk.
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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 want to make the greatest record ever made. It's the only thing I can think about.
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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.