Ezra Furman Quotes

I don't think there was really a time when I have not been politically aware.

I've always been political.

I am such a political person.

I can't afford to be indifferent to politics, but I don't have personal ambitions.

You can't do anything that's not political in this time and age.

My duty is to raise the consciousness of the American people.

Politics is not a spectator sport. You can't just sit on the sidelines.

I think everybody who has a brain should get involved in politics. Working within. Not criticizing it from the outside. Become an active participant, no matter how feeble you think the effort is.

I think it's very important of course that you're politically aware of what you do.

I was very engaged in my communities throughout college, but I never thought of it as political.

If I sound political, it's because I am.

I became active in politics because I saw the possibility, if we all sat back and did nothing, of a world in which there would no longer be any stages for actors to act on.

We're all looking for an authentic way to be engaged in the community, engaged in politics, engaged in national discussion - and so, we're clunky. We're all clunky. But it's better than not doing it.

I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that.

My parents always went to rallies and demonstrated against certain things; my generation, we often have a political conscience, but we're not that involved.

I'm from a very politically and socially conscious family. My mother always made a point of making us look at what was going on around us and take stock of our part in it.

I am not political. It is not my job. But I would be happy if politicians could read my work and draw some conclusions from it.

At the time it seemed like a natural development of my interest in what was going on around me in society.

People in New York pay attention to national issues - a huge percentage of people.

I don't think I'm a political songwriter as much as I am just a political person. I think it's in my fabric.

I don't see how anybody cannot be political in this day and age. There's so much going on and you have to be aware and you have to vote. Our lives are political.

I long for the day when there are things I feel strongly about politically.

I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement.

My poems are political in the deeper sense of the word. Political means to live in your time, to be a man of your time.

I have a very strong political outlook, and that is something I'd like to take more responsibility for in my life. I don't believe in utilising certain aspects of the power I have with celebrity to push that forward, but I would like to make some films that address some of those political issues.