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.Ezra Koenig
Quotes to Explore
-
It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
M. Ward -
I have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven't changed much.
Yoko Ono -
The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
J. D. Salinger -
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.
Van Cliburn -
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.
Victoria Osteen -
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.
Gary Hume
-
No one can be an artist without a rich inner life.
Daniel Barenboim -
Mix CDs are interesting. I'm known more for my artist albums and less for my mix CDs.
Kaskade -
Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful.
Edmund H. North -
I've always had so much admiration for my mom. She's so inspiring as a woman and as an artist.
Jennifer Jason Leigh -
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.'
Angela Robinson -
Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.
Abraham Flexner
-
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.
Nicki Minaj -
Give yourself an impossible task and solve it - then you've got a really good story.
Carl Reiner -
Artists are often excellent businessmen. They have to be. Otherwise they do not remain artists.
A. Y. Jackson -
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
Erykah Badu -
You put the right artist on the right track in the studio and leave the door open to let God in.
Jay-Z -
When you choose your profession, you also choose your own downfall or success. If one chooses to become an artist it is 99% certain that it will go to hell. So you should not become that. If you study economics on Oslo, 99% of all students will do very well and 1% will reach the top.
Odd Nerdrum
-
Order is a prerequisite of survival; therefore the impulse to produce orderly arrangements is inbred by evolution.
Rudolf Arnheim -
I ride a bicycle everywhere I go, the physical strength is obvious, but my mental strength and my capacity to love myself and to love others has definitely expanded. And that's the one thing I need the most in taking on a life of touring and a life of basically being with hundreds of people every day and not exhaust one's energy.
Jason Mraz -
The Copyright Act of 1909 set the term for copyright of a musical composition to twenty-eight years, renewable for an additional twenty-eight, and for the first time included under copyright “public performance for profit.” That is, anyone playing or singing a copyrighted song had to pay for the right to do so. “Had to” but often didn’t: many bandleaders—and the restaurants and nightclubs that employed them—resisted paying anything to copyright holders, sometimes offering the justification that public performances stimulated sheet music sales.
Ben Yagoda -
As an artist you have the luxury of maybe presenting an issue in a certain way, as opposed to actually solving it.
Ezra Koenig