Ezra Furman Quotes
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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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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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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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The first music I loved on my own was punk.
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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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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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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 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.