Ezra Furman Quotes
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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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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'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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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 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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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 was rather obsessed with angels.
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Being in a rock n' roll group, or being a musician, it is in conflict in some serious cultural ways with being an observant Jew, but in a conceptual way, for me, they go together real well.
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I'm going to make the music I wish someone else was making.
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I write all the time and I try to think of ideas all the time.
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I wanted to get a guitar when I was 13 so I could play punk songs because kid taught me power chords at summer camp. He was like, "You could play all punk songs if you just learn this chord and just move it around on the guitar".
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I see a skill developing of writing about not just feelings that I'm feeling, but things that I deeply care about as well.
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I think I'm becoming a climate activist.