Ezra Furman Quotes

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Ezra Furman

Profession : Musician

Birth : September 5, 1986

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 just don't care that much about the band name. I'm not so precious about it. The Harpoons were different people, but The Boy-Friends were and are the same people as The Visions. I changed it to The Visions when we made 'Transangelic Exodus' because I guess we didn't feel so friendly and boyish anymore.

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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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My focus is matters of the heart and matters of the spirit, emotion and passion and stuff like that. But I think I've been getting better at being more specific about what it is I care about. Such as the welfare of refugees and solidarity between threatened populations.

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We take a lot of inspiration from punk rock and early rock 'n' roll from the '50s and early '60s.

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I feel like my consignment and fear from people pushed me to become a performer.

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One of my goals in making music is to make the world seem bigger, and life seem larger.

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I take it hard whenever anything happens that makes, I guess, queer people feel less safe and less welcome in the world.

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Sometimes there's a day where I don't feel good being out in the world, and I feel unsafe in the world in general. And an anxiety about just showing up in the world. It's kind of irrational, but people do say things to me out in the street about how I'm dressed.

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Far from being a showbiz gimmick, for me dressing as I please has signalled the end of a lifelong performance of straightforward masculinity.

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In terms of keeping kosher, I've basically just been vegetarian. I want to be fully vegetarian anyway, though sometimes my mom makes chicken soup and I have to eat it. I just love it.

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I am frustrated at misconceptions of me, and being cast in a role.

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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 grew up attending a Conservative day school, Solomon Schechter, until I was about 14, and going to a Reconstructionist synagogue.

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My main theme as a songwriter seems to be a feeling of homelessness, of being in motion. The feeling of being somehow unmoored, a radical internal freedom that is very painful and also joyful.

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I really don't care about what anyone says unless they are also gender-nonconforming. Then I really listen. I love the solidarity felt between us gender failures.

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I think I'm becoming a climate activist.

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As children my grandparents were refugees. Eventually they got to the U.S. - in 1950 or something. They grew up as refugees. Their earliest memories are of living in a home with their family. It's in my blood, I guess, to have a fear about encouraging fascism.

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I don't really believe in trying to erase every Woody Allen movie from history. For one thing, that's kind of unfair to all the people who worked on those movies or albums or whatever it is. What did they do wrong to have their work erased from culture?

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