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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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.
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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 don't think that much anymore in terms of 'write a record, record a record, tour a record,' because in my own mind, things have changed, in that I'm just an ongoing artist. I'm not quite sure what the next project needs to be until it presents himself, and then I know. I just follow dutifully while I'm being led.
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Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.
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I was making big paintings with mythological themes. When I started painting black figures, the white professors were relieved, and the black students were like, 'She's on our side.' These are the kinds of issues that a white male artist just doesn't have to deal with.
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All the time I'm changing as an artist and as a person.
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Everything about the music industry takes away from you as an artist. They're always wondering what the next thing is: 'What do you have?' It's a very introverted process.
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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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It's usually a big kind of vent of frustration or anger or sadness that puts me in the right frame of mind to write. It's such a cliche to say that artists write when they're down, but it's true for me. It's a relief to get out what's eating away at my heart or my soul or my head.
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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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I feel like the better version of myself is on paper... I'd rather have people know me on paper.
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I don't want to be 50 years old and rapping, man. I'm pretty sure nobody wants to do that.
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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.
