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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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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It's a good feeling to not tell people what's going on.
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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 was rather obsessed with angels.
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I wear what I want to wear and appear on stage as myself.
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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.
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I'm going to make the music I wish someone else was making.
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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 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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Some part of me hopes for a guardian angel to protect me and other people who need protection.