Ezra Furman Quotes

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Ezra Furman

Profession : Musician

Birth : September 5, 1986

I like going to bed early and getting up early, but that doesn't happen on tour.

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If you get into really learning about the roots of monotheism, it was utterly a radical cultural moment. The Bible was so revolutionary and against all that came before it.

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I was pretty much into punk rock and that's all I cared about. I was into Green Day and the Ramones. I wanted to get a guitar so I could play punk songs because this kid taught me power chords at summer camp.

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I write all the time and I try to think of ideas all the time.

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I think most of the work of songwriting is thinking of great phrases - I'm addicted, always on the hunt for a really great phrase.

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I heard the Velvet Underground and that changed things when I was like, 15.

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I could write a joke song really easily, but I think something that might be true for my generation is that there's a certain irony or detachedness expected of us, even though we really feel sincere. So the only way to sincerity is through a joke.

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It's always about staying competitive with myself... Popularity is something that may happen from time to time, and I don't trust it and I don't think it means too much. I'm going for greatness.

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Jews like to write and sing. In America, a lot of us have been eager to show that we're part of American culture. But it all goes back to King David writing Psalms.

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I was rather obsessed with angels.

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I don't really worship the album 'Transformer.' It's not the best thing that Lou Reed has done.

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You have to make a character of yourself if you're going to be known to strangers.

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I write good songs out of fear... fear of failure. Because if they're not good enough, you feel yourself starting to fall.

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The Velvet Underground is probably the best band that's ever existed, assuredly the best American one.

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I get stage fright really bad sometimes, so touring has been hard on me in a lot of ways. But despite that, I love performing.

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I first got into music when I heard punk, and it was saying maybe it's OK if you don't live up to the expectations various authorities have for you.

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A repressed person overcoming their repression always makes good music.

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Not only am I a shy person, I take a little while to say what I mean, especially in a social situation, and usually those move too fast for me to say anything at all.

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I always maintain that artists do not have any responsibility to do anything except cause no harm and do whatever we want to do as artists.

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I don't like the notion that artists have a responsibility to be political.

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