Ezra Koenig Quotes
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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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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I have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven't changed much.
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I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think you need to feel an urgency about the act. Otherwise, when you read it, you feel no urgency, either. So I don't write unless I really feel I need to, and that's a luxury.
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The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
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An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something that will eclipse everything else.
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Remember, if you want to love your life and live it to the fullest, don't let the sun go down on your anger. If you don't have a solution to the issue, agree to disagree and focus on the importance of the relationship.
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I have to take it as a given that I have got a certain ability to do something. I can be an artist, which is take something and transform it into another thing. I can just see something, and I can see my painting.
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No one can be an artist without a rich inner life.
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Mix CDs are interesting. I'm known more for my artist albums and less for my mix CDs.
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Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful.
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I've always had so much admiration for my mom. She's so inspiring as a woman and as an artist.
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If you grow up saying, 'I want to be a lawyer,' everyone says, 'Let's give her everything she needs to be a lawyer.' But if you say 'I want to be an artist or a dancer or a painter,' it's, 'Oh, she'll grow out of it.'
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I have reached the stage now where luxury is not in fine possessions but in carefree possessions, and the greatest luxury of all would be the completely expendable.
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Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.
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People don't know how heavily involved I am in my own career. I'm on 15 to 25 conference calls every few days strategizing with my team. I think a lot of artists sit back and have it done for them. Sometimes as women in the industry - if you're sexy or like doing sexy things - some people subconsciously negate your brain. They think you're stupid.
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Give yourself an impossible task and solve it - then you've got a really good story.
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Artists are often excellent businessmen. They have to be. Otherwise they do not remain artists.
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I knew it would happen. I knew I'd be No. 1. I'm a new artist; I don't know the rules. Nobody told me it wouldn't happen
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If the photographer is not a discoverer, then he is not an artist.
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If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.
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All rehab can do is tell you what’s wrong with you and then suggest ways for you to get better.
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Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.
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As an artist you have the luxury of maybe presenting an issue in a certain way, as opposed to actually solving it.
