American - Musician | June 30, 1979 -
I enjoyed coming home to Crown Heights. There was a certain order to life there. You know, Shabbos, spending time with your family, eating and being in 'shul.' Prayers at nighttime, prayers in the morning. Everyone knows everybody; you walk your kids everywhere.
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Songs that aren't even remotely connected to Christmas are now officially canonized Christmas tunes. 'Frosty the Snowman,' 'Jingle Bells' and 'Winter Wonderland' never mention anything religious but are still notches in Christmas' belt of musical dominance.
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The best part of touring is the opportunity to make the music. You get to do what you love and have the ability to go out on stage every night and create.
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I always knew I was different and that people had opinions about me. I guess I learned as best as I can to shield out a lot and live my life from within.
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Most of my life wasn't about knowledge from books, but experiential knowledge.
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People aren't religious because it's easy not to be. Like anything, it's habitual, and once it's a habit it's no longer hard.
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Change is an internal thing. Different things happen or transform, and music and art is a documentation of that.
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As a kid, I was really into performing. I would do choruses, I would do musicals, whatever it was. And then, as a teenager, I got into an acting class at SUNY Purchase for gifted kids, and that really turned me on to material beyond musicals, Sam Shepard, and Christopher Durang plays.
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I did some acting in college. But then everything stopped when I was a junior, in the fall of 2001, when I started becoming religious. Once I became a full-on Hasidic, I stopped everything. I stopped music. I stopped acting.
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The place that I'm trying to come from and where I'm trying to make music from is when I feel like I'm able to somehow, like, transcend it all and just speak right to God.
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I don't think you could pull one Bob Marley song that didn't have quotes from the Torah or the Old Testament.
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I kind of think that music in general is a sacred thing, and that's what music has kind of always been for me.
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