In my whole life, I’ve had maybe 10 people who have told me how much my music means to them. David Berman Read Quote
I believe that intermittent live performance has cut short the writing lives of touring musicians. David Berman Read Quote
I’ve had to stop going to the nearest grocery store that seems to play Shania Twain’s ‘Forever and For Always’ whenever I’m there. It’s hard to shop for frozen entrees through cold-air blasted tears. Feels good on a flushed face though. David Berman Read Quote
My faith was undermined by the same sort of things that make people skeptics of religion in general. Part of it was, there was no real place for me in Judaism. Maybe if there was I would’ve hung in there, but I was attracted to the social-justice aspects of Judaism, and I was attracted to the prophets. David Berman Read Quote
When I started the band, the name ‘Silver Jews’ had no literal meaning – it was just an abstraction. David Berman Read Quote
I am not only neither Christian nor Jewish, but said to be in between, and I feel the same way about being from the South and being from the North. I write with my left hand but I throw a ball with my right hand. David Berman Read Quote
A lot of the Jews I met in Israel, almost all of them are secular. They get turned off by their religion, in the same way that Americans get turned off Christianity by people like Jerry Falwell and Pat Robinson. David Berman Read Quote
