Ezra Furman Quotes

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Ezra Furman

Profession : Musician

Birth : September 5, 1986

More visibility is more power, but more vulnerability.

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You know, a lot of people have an instinct to downplay the fact that they are performing and be, like, 'There is no theatre here. This is just me playing the songs.' At some point I just realised how much better it could be if you weren't shy about being a performer.

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I believe an authentic Judaism would legislate total equality for queer people.

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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 guess I just do being a man different than some.

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My bassist Jorgen Jorgensen opened up my life to a lot of great, obscure old soul records.

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I feel like one thing that messed me up was living in a homophobic and transphobic society, and just being the object of mockery and disgust in your average sitcom or movie or person at school.

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I want to be a force that tries to revive the human spirit rather than crush it, to open possibilities rather than close them down. Sometimes a passionate negativity is the best way to do that.

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We need a lot more visibility of queer people in public life. People gotta get used to it.

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God is close to the brokenhearted, and God lifts up the lonely. That was a message that was explicitly quoted to me and was part of my upbringing: Brokenhearted people and poor people and people who are in trouble should be your focus, and you should be on their team.

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I'm a shy person whose very presence has become a confrontation. I think that's true of a lot of queer people.

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Just being gender non-conforming opens you to trouble from strangers. And violence.

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You have to be an anti-racist to not be racist. Because it's just a cultural tide that will pull you into it if you're not swimming against it.

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It's a good feeling to not tell people what's going on.

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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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Ezra Furman And The Boy-Friends was a band with a specific mission - to be a really good rock'n'roll band. And we achieved it.

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People get stigmatised for their bodies and for their differences. Then those people become very vulnerable.

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Chuck Berry invented rock 'n' roll. He was one of the best songwriters of the 20th century.

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We music fans go to shows for transcendence; it's like being called to prayer.

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We punk fans have so much energy to give to the fight against injustice, i.e. the abuse of the poor by the rich, i.e. climate change.

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