Quotes by Ezra Koenig - Page 1

Playing 'Tetris' for 15 minutes is like meditation.
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Meditation
Minutes
Tetris
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Making every record is a process full of tough times.
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Process
Records
Tough
Tough Times
Full
Times
Record
Making
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In Europe, I always have fun bike riding in Amsterdam.
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Amsterdam
Bike
Europe
Fun
Riding
Have Fun
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I go to great pains to find the best yogurt and granola.
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Granola
Pain
Yogurt
Pains
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Tom Cruise is one of the most successful actors of all time.
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Actors
Cruise
Successful
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I still to this day get the most inspiration from rap lyrics.
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Inspiration
Rap
Stills
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Well, growing up in the '90s, my first true love was ska music.
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True Love
Firsts
Growing
Growing Up
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I like how Ralph Lauren creates a mystical world through his clothing.
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Lauren
Mystical
World
Clothing
Creates
Ralph
Ralph Lauren
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I'm a huge fan of the Bay Area so I always love coming to San Francisco.
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Bay Area
Fans
San Francisco
Bay
Francisco
Huge Fan
San
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I still think that if you're excited about something, you have to work at it.
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Excited
Stills
Thinking
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There aren't that many people walking about who are a total class stereotype.
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Class
People
Stereotype
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I feel like you constantly have to prove why you deserve to continue to exist.
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Feels
Like You
Prove
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It's really hard to even talk about the internet without seeming instantly corny.
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Corny
Internet
Seeming
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It's cool to have instruments lying around because they give you different ideas.
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Different Ideas
Giving
Ideas
Instruments
Lying
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Sometimes you want to dress a certain way... that doesn't always reflect your pedigree.
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Dresses
Pedigree
Want
Way
Always Dress Your
Certain Way
Reflect
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Musicals don't get enough credit for being so surreal. It's like an alternate universe.
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Credit
Enough
Surreal
Alternate
Musicals
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I'm pretty sure that the Walkmen are the band that I've paid to see the most in my life.
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Band
Paid
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If kids and teenagers can get into a band, its probably not because they think its brainy.
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Kids
Teenager
Thinking
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If kids and teenagers can get into a band, it's probably not because they think it's brainy.
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Teenagers
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Sometimes I surprise myself with how dissatisfied I am with seemingly satisfying experiences.
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Satisfying
Sometimes
Surprise
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I don't like to generalize but I've had nothing but bad experiences with Mexican food in Europe.
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Europe
Mexican
Mexican Food
Generalize
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My dad has a really great record collection that basically went up to the year I was born: 1984.
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Dad
Records
Years
Record Collection
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Anyways, trying to express yourself to the press is often like arguing with a hysterical person.
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Arguing
Express Yourself
Hysterical
Trying
Express
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I'm down with Spotify. I don't know all the financial details but generally it's a great resource.
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Details
Financial
Resources
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No part of Manhattan these days really has the same vibe I get from a Ramones song or a Velvet Underground song.
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Manhattan
Ramones
Song
Velvet
Underground
Vibe
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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.
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Artist
Issues
Luxury
Presenting
Certain Way
Opposed
Solving
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Some people say video games rot your brain, but I think they work different muscles that maybe you don't normally use.
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Work
Brain
Different
Games
Muscles
People
Thinking
Use
Video
Work Brain Your
Use Brain Your
Work Brain People
Work Use Your
Say
Maybe
Normally
People Say
Some
Rot
Some People
Video Games
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All I know for sure is that issues like race, like class, are always best approached with compassion and open-mindedness.
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Class
Compassion
Race
Best Always Know
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We live in such extreme times that I think we all have a responsibility to be aware of what's happening and talk about it.
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Responsibility
Thinking
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If you're lonely, bored, or unhappy, remember you are mad young. There is so much time to meet new people and go to new places.
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Lonely
Remember You
Remembers You
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For you to be able to take a picture of yourself that you feel good enough about to share with the world - I think that's a great thing.
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Feel Good
Thinking
World
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A writer once asked what I'd say if I ever met my biggest hater. I paused, thought deeply and said, "Probably 'suk a dog dik, motherfuker.'"
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Dog
Mets
Said
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Rapping and singing are not two polar opposites. There's so much middle ground. And I think there's a lot of people who find that middle ground.
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Middle Ground
Opposites
Rap
Singing
Thinking
Rapping
Ground
Polar
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But you know what? When I die, everybody is invited to come take a selfie at my funeral. Except for my enemies. They're not invited to the funeral, period.
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Enemy
Funeral
Periods
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I went to Columbia University because I knew I wanted to go to a school that was academically rigorous. I prided myself on getting good grades, but I also hated it.
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Columbia
Columbia University
Good Grades
Grades
Hated
University
Academically
Rigorous
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Growing up listening to rap music, you almost feel like you should have haters. That's an important part of being a successful musician. It's a good thing, I guess.
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Growing Up
Musician
Rap
Rap Music
Successful
Good Music Important
Good Thing
Guess
Haters
Important Part
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You can be 24 and continue to live like you're at college, or even continue to live like you're in high school. Or you can put on a shirt and tie and pretend to be an adult.
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College
School
Ties
Pretend
Shirt
Tie
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It's so easy for anyone to deal with their own guilt of being a middle-class white music fan by pointing to other people who they perceive to be richer than them, whiter than them.
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Guilt
Perceive
Pointing
Richer
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My dad grew up in a working-class Jewish neighbourhood, and I got a scholarship from my dad's union to go to college. I went there to get an education, not as an extension of privilege.
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Dad
Class
College
Privilege
Scholarship
Working Class
Jewish
Extension
Neighbourhood
Union
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One of the things I've always loved about anime is that, even though it comes from Japan, it's so international - so much of the big anime I love takes place in Italy or France or New York.
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I remember the first pangs of stress arriving at the end of school. Once I graduated I had to get a full-time job, worry about health insurance, saving money, paying rent - things I'd never thought about before.
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Health
Arriving
Saving
Saving Money
Stress
Worry
Full-Time
Full-Time Job
Graduated
Health Insurance
Insurance
Paying
Rent
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I grew up listening to Jay-Z, and I think the first time I really became obsessed with learning and thinking about lyrics was when I started listening to rap; I was 11, 12, and started becoming aware of music beyond the familiar.
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Familiar
Jay-Z
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I do think sometimes there's danger in guest appearance mania. I've seen too many examples that sound cool on paper, like 'Oh, get that guy to sing the hook on that guy's song,' and then that's all it is. It's a cool idea that sounds good on paper.
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Appearance
Danger
Hook
Ideas
Mania
Paper
Song
Thinking
Examples
Guest
Sing
Sounds
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It's pretty cool that people will pay for something even though they don't have to. It's totally different now to back in the day. Now you're paying for a record because you believe in the band. In the future that will be the only time people will pay for albums, because there's some kind of connection.
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Believe
Connections
Only Time
People
Connection
Paying
Time People
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I could Google image search 'the sky' and I would probably see beautiful images to knock my socks off. But I can't Google, you know, 'What does my friend look like today?' For you to be able to take a picture of yourself that you feel good enough about to share with the world - I think that's a great thing.
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Beautiful
Sky
Thinking
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I think that anybody who's anti-selfie is really just a hater. Because, truthfully, why shouldn't people take pictures of themselves? When I'm on Instagram and I see that somebody took a picture of themselves, I'm like, 'Thank you.' I don't need to see a picture of the sky, the trees, plants. There's only one you.
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People
Sky
Thinking
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If I can't do that at age 33, I'll probably never be able to do it. As you enter your thirties, things get a little more squiggly, with life spreading out in different directions. All of that makes me think that now's the time to do what you really want to do and not have that same type of youthful anxiety about every step.
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Age
Anxiety
Thinking
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