Ezra Furman Quotes
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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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I wear what I want to wear and appear on stage as myself.
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I was rather obsessed with angels.
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I think I'm gradually becoming a more politically aware person.
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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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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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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'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 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.