Ezra Furman Quotes
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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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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 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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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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People get stigmatised for their bodies and for their differences. Then those people become very vulnerable.
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I think I'm becoming a climate activist.
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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.
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Desperate times make for desperate songs.
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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.