"I was like, "Who the hell is Bob Dylan?" I was going to learn one song to appease my mom and alphabetically the first song in the book was "Absolutely Sweet Marie." When I heard it, it was like "Oh, there is something going on here. It's not like my parents' boring music that I don't care about. This is totally electrifying.""

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Source : "Playground for the Perplexed". Interview with J.L. Sirisuk, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 5, 2015.

Ezra Furman

#Mom Quotes #Song Quotes #Sweet Quotes

“A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.”
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. The struggle for justice must never be adjourned. The forces of injustice do not take vacations.”
“Sometime during your lifeâ€”in fact, very soonâ€”you may find yourself reading a book, and you may notice that a bookâ€™s first sentence can often tell you what sort of story your book contains.”
“The arts are statistically proven to increase independent thinking, creativity, discipline, balance, and academic improvement in children.”
“I smoke a cigar or two a day. I did have a brownie once. It made me sleepy.”
“I did one year at NYU, and I'd love to go back there someday”
“It is not dirt but the fear of dirt which is the sign of man's degeneration, and it is dangerous to judge a man's physical and moral sanity by outside standards.”
“We must work our destiny in our own way and present to the world an economic system based on true Islamic concept of equality of manhood and social justice. We will thereby be fulfilling our mission as Muslims and giving to humanity the message of peace which alone can save it and secure the welfare, happiness and prosperity of mankind.”

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