"As an artist you have the luxury of……" — Ezra Koenig
"As an artist you have the luxury of maybe presenting an issue in a certain way, as opposed to actually solving it."
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38 Quotes by Ezra Koenig
Ezra Koenig has 38 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- My dad grew up in a working-class Jewish neighbourhood, and I got a scholarship from my dad's union to go…
- You can be 24 and continue to live like you're at college, or even continue to live like you're in…
- I think that anybody who's anti-selfie is really just a hater. Because, truthfully, why shouldn't people take pictures of themselves?…
- I could Google image search 'the sky' and I would probably see beautiful images to knock my socks off. But…
- But you know what? When I die, everybody is invited to come take a selfie at my funeral. Except for…
- If kids and teenagers can get into a band, its probably not because they think its brainy.
- It's cool to have instruments lying around because they give you different ideas.
- I do think sometimes there's danger in guest appearance mania. I've seen too many examples that sound cool on paper,…
- It's pretty cool that people will pay for something even though they don't have to. It's totally different now to…
- My dad has a really great record collection that basically went up to the year I was born: 1984.
- I feel like you constantly have to prove why you deserve to continue to exist.
- Sometimes I surprise myself with how dissatisfied I am with seemingly satisfying experiences.
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