Logo
Quote by Ezra Koenig
I grew up listening to Jay-Z, and I think the first time I really

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. – Ezra Koenig

Other quotes by Ezra Koenig

Its pretty cool that people will pay for something even though they dont have to. Its totally different now to back in the day. Now youre 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 theres some kind of connection. – Ezra Koenig

Category:
cool
Author
Ezra Koenig
Read Quote

My dad grew up in a working-class Jewish neighbourhood, and I got a scholarship from my dads union to go to college. I went there to get an education, not as an extension of privilege. – Ezra Koenig

Category:
dad
Author
Ezra Koenig
Read Quote

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 Id never thought about before. – Ezra Koenig

Category:
Health
Author
Ezra Koenig
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Learning
category

Advise for anybody – enjoy what you are doing, enjoy the process of learning and dont be impatient. – Robin Cousins

Category:
Learning

When I was first learning songs, Id have a favorite song, and Id take the chords and twist them around. Id learn the chords and then play them backward. That was my first experimenting with writing a song. – Alicia Keys

Category:
Learning

I am dumb when it comes to learning dance steps. – Mia Kirshner

Category:
Learning

One thing changes every evening: Its the audience, and Im working my magic. Im always learning from it. – Eli Wallach

Category:
Learning

Random Quotes

If you are lonely when youre alone, you are in bad company. – Jean-Paul Sartre

Category:
alone

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earths surface relative to other matter second, telling other people to do so. – Bertrand Russell

Category:
work

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future. – Hannah Arendt

Category:
Promises

There was a teacher who recognized that I was interested in cartooning and he was great. – Jonathan Shapiro

Category:
teacher