Author: Ezra Koenig

Quotes

I'm a huge fan of the Bay Area so I always love coming to San Francisco.

I'm a huge fan of the Bay Area so I always love coming to San Francisco.

- Ezra Koenig

Some people say video games rot your brain, but I think they work different muscles that maybe you don't normally use.

Some people say video games rot your brain, but I think they work different muscles that maybe you don't normally use.

- Ezra Koenig

All I know for sure is that issues like race, like class, are always best approached with compassion and open-mindedness.

All I know for sure is that issues like race, like class, are always best approached with compassion and open-mindedness.

- Ezra Koenig

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.

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.

- Ezra Koenig

I don't like to generalize but I've had nothing but bad experiences with Mexican food in Europe.

I don't like to generalize but I've had nothing but bad experiences with Mexican food in Europe.

- Ezra Koenig

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.

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.

- Ezra Koenig

If kids and teenagers can get into a band, it's probably not because they think it's brainy.

If kids and teenagers can get into a band, it's probably not because they think it's brainy.

- Ezra Koenig

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.

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.

- Ezra Koenig

My dad has a really great record collection that basically went up to the year I was born: 1984.

My dad has a really great record collection that basically went up to the year I was born: 1984.

- Ezra Koenig

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