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Ezra Furman
American
Musician
Born:
Sep 5
,
1986
Being
Me
Music
People
Think
You
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I'm not an actor.
Ezra Furman
Actor
I'm not so adept at social media. It's not my forte.
Ezra Furman
Social Media
Adept
Social
Forte
Media
Listening to songs is like eating and writing songs is like vomiting. You're putting a ton of stuff in, it combines in unpredictable ways, and comes back out in a big mess.
Ezra Furman
You
Writing
Listening
Big
Back
Ways
Out
Unpredictable
Eating
Songs
Putting
Stuff
Like
Mess
Ton
More visibility is more power, but more vulnerability.
Ezra Furman
Power
Visibility
More
More Power
Vulnerability
If you're trying to deal with being a marginalized person and trying to confront a larger population that isn't the same as you, you can be friendly about it, and invite everybody in, or you can be angry about it and be hostile and attack the systems that you want to destabilize.
Ezra Furman
Angry
You
Everybody
Systems
About
Attack
Hostile
Invite
Deal
Friendly
Person
Trying
Same
Being
Want
Confront
Population
Larger
Marginalized
My favourite artists are the ones who are human, and you know they're not in a failure-proof environment.
Ezra Furman
You
Favourite
Environment
Know
Human
Artists
Who
Judaism is a way of thinking, more than anything else, that I think is entirely distinct, and the more you know of it, the more you can enter into that kind of thinking.
Ezra Furman
You
Think
Thinking
Else
Way
Distinct
Enter
Kind
Entirely
More
More Than Anything
Know
Judaism
Than
Anything
Anything Else
I'm in this effort to unify my life and to live day to day in a disciplined way, to be real at all times, not just in front of people, or not just in a synagogue.
Ezra Furman
Life
Day
People
My Life
Live
Synagogue
Way
Be Real
Day-To-Day
Disciplined
Real
Times
Effort
Front
Just
Unify
My bassist Jorgen Jorgensen opened up my life to a lot of great, obscure old soul records.
Ezra Furman
Life
Great
Soul
Old
My Life
Bassist
Records
Obscure
Opened
Lot
Up
I was thinking very carefully about going into education, becoming a teacher, maybe becoming a rabbi.
Ezra Furman
Education
Teacher
Thinking
Carefully
About
Becoming
Very
Going
Maybe
Rabbi
My two most fervent interests are pop music and traditional Judaism. Hell of a pair of fervent interests.
Ezra Furman
Music
Hell
Most
Judaism
Traditional
Fervent
Interests
Pop
Pop Music
Pair
Two
I believe an authentic Judaism would legislate total equality for queer people.
Ezra Furman
People
Equality
Believe
Would
Total
Judaism
Queer
Authentic
Legislate
Some part of me hopes for a guardian angel to protect me and other people who need protection.
Ezra Furman
Me
People
Protection
Guardian
Angel
Other
Hopes
Some
Part
Protect
Who
Need
I wear what I want to wear and appear on stage as myself.
Ezra Furman
Myself
Stage
Wear
Want
Appear
I'm a big fan of Louis CK - I think he's a master of standup.
Ezra Furman
Master
Big
Think
He
Big Fan
Louis
Fan
Standup
I love it when people write rapturously about music they love.
Ezra Furman
Love
Music
People
About
Write
I love obsessive fandom because I'm an obsessive fan who flips out over music.
Ezra Furman
Love
Music
Out
Obsessive
Over
Because
Fan
Who
Flips
Just being a normal person and having a social life involves a lot of dishonesty for me.
Ezra Furman
Life
Me
Having
Involves
Normal
Lot
Normal Person
Person
Just
Being
Dishonesty
Social
Social Life
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.
Ezra Furman
You
Bible
Learning
Before
Radical
Monotheism
About
Came
Cultural
Get
Revolutionary
Against
Really
Roots
Moment
Utterly
We need a lot more visibility of queer people in public life. People gotta get used to it.
Ezra Furman
Life
People
Visibility
More
Gotta
Queer
Lot
Get
Public
Public Life
Used
Need
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.
Ezra Furman
Time
Myself
Trust
Too Much
Think
Too
Staying
About
Something
Always
Greatness
From Time To Time
Going
May
Happen
Much
Means
Popularity
Competitive
I was rather obsessed with angels.
Ezra Furman
Angels
Rather
Obsessed
I don't really worship the album 'Transformer.' It's not the best thing that Lou Reed has done.
Ezra Furman
Best
Worship
Reed
Lou Reed
Done
Really
Thing
Album
You have to make a character of yourself if you're going to be known to strangers.
Ezra Furman
Character
You
Yourself
Strangers
Make
Known
Going
I write good songs out of fear... fear of failure. Because if they're not good enough, you feel yourself starting to fall.
Ezra Furman
Good
Failure
You
Yourself
Fear
Fall
Not Good Enough
Enough
Out
Write
Songs
Feel
Because
Starting
The Velvet Underground is probably the best band that's ever existed, assuredly the best American one.
Ezra Furman
Best
Band
Velvet
Underground
Existed
American
Ever
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