Ezra Furman Quotes
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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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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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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'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 wear what I want to wear and appear on stage as myself.
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I think of myself as someone who's trying to be a great songwriter and a great performer. And I mean really great.
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I was rather obsessed with angels.
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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 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 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 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.