Ezra Furman Quotes
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The first music I loved on my own was punk.
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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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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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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 was rather obsessed with angels.
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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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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 write all the time and I try to think of ideas all the time.
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I'm going to make the music I wish someone else was making.
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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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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 think I'm becoming a climate activist.
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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.