Ezra Furman

Musician

1986-09-05

Quotes by Ezra Furman

• 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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• Just being a normal person and having a social life involves a lot of dishonesty for me.

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• I think there's a large worry in queer communities about imitating straight people, when queerness has its own identity and maybe can be a radical force that should be dismantling stuff that locks people into structures.

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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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• If I can see the sunrise - and I usually don't - I like to. I'm a big fan of the sun.

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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 honestly feel like I've been mostly toiling in obscurity until a little bit after 'Day Of the Dog' came out.

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• 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.

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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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• More visibility is more power, but more vulnerability.

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