Ezra Furman Quotes

I think that anyone really can write songs, it just takes having an idea and a feeling and chasing it, and you can learn more about it. I think that's why I go to so many sessions. It is a craft that you can learn from other people. I find it to be the most fascinating thing. So I write a lot, yeah!

I would love to do more music, definitely. That is my true passion. Dance is first and then music.

Ever since Two Daughters I've been composing my own music.

I just love making music, and that's my focus.

I need to do music.

Making music is something I've always wanted to do.

I bought a guitar when I was twenty. But I didn't write a song until I was 25 or 26. I never learned to play others songs. I learned to play my own songs while I was learning how to make them better.

I was writing tons of music in my spare time. I might be on location somewhere, and I'd go home and I'd have my guitar and my little keyboard or something and write music. Or if I was at home, on my piano. I've always been a late bloomer with a lot of things, just in general, so I think this was something that needed to come to fruition in this particular way.

I was teaching myself notes from three and then by seven I'd figured out how to play some chords, and at school I used to love writing poems and poetry, so I guess I kind of put two and two together and that formed my songwriting from an early age.

The more songs I've written, the more I've grown interested in telling a story. When I first began, I had this list of opaque phrases where you can make of it what you want.

I just play music by listening and responding, so I don't know anything about writing songs or arranging and all of this stuff. You know, it's in my head, but I don't know how to get it out.

I'm always working on music.

Making music is like school to me.

I wanna make music; that's all I wanna do.

I've always wanted to make some kind of music that was universally appreciated.

I just want to focus on creating more music.

I always wanted to make rock music as well or as an element of what I do.

I'm enjoying doing research, to get better at the guitar, to get better at rhyming. That's an essential skill.

All my songs were made at the end of the neck, 'farmer's corner' chords.

I know as far as I'm concerned, I'm getting really excited about writing, and I'm taking guitar and vocal lessons.

I just wanted to write about music if I wasn't going to make it.

Basically, I want to prove to everybody that I can write music - good music.

I love music. In a lot of my downtime, I spend time listening to other people's music or other people's rhymes and writing my own.

Most songs have bridges in them, to distract listeners from the main verses of a song so they don't get bored. My songs don't have a lot of bridges because lyric poetry never had them.

I'd advise all you songwriters out there, if you're getting into it for the business, go home and get a job digging ditches or something. Get a life. You'll learn a lot more, and you won't write a lot of rotten poetry.