Music Quotes by Ezra Furman

I love it when people write rapturously about music they love.

— Ezra Furman

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

— Ezra Furman

I've always been drawn to ambiguity in pop music.

— Ezra Furman

I love obsessive fandom because I'm an obsessive fan who flips out over music.

— Ezra Furman

A repressed person overcoming their repression always makes good music.

— Ezra Furman

I'm going to make the music I wish someone else was making.

— Ezra Furman

The first music I loved on my own was punk.

— Ezra Furman

Desperate times make for desperate songs.

— Ezra Furman

There is something embarrassing about asking for money, but if I hadn't done that, I would have not continued to be a…

— Ezra Furman

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

I'm an amateur at music and an amateur at most things. I like the idea of offering some music and some records…

— Ezra Furman

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

— Ezra Furman

I first got into music when I heard punk, and it was saying maybe it's OK if you don't live up to…

— Ezra Furman

We spent a lot of time making 'Transangelic Exodus' and toward the end of it, my ability and my love for music…

— Ezra Furman

Being in a rock n' roll group, or being a musician, it is in conflict in some serious cultural ways with being…

— Ezra Furman

Listening to songs is like eating and writing songs is like vomiting. You're putting a ton of stuff in, it combines in…

— Ezra Furman

I've been writing songs since I was a teenager, so one kind of song I've written a lot is about, I don't…

— Ezra Furman

My two most fervent interests are pop music and traditional Judaism. Hell of a pair of fervent interests.

— Ezra Furman