Author: Ezra Koenig

Quotes

I'm pretty sure that the Walkmen are the band that I've paid to see the most in my life.

I'm pretty sure that the Walkmen are the band that I've paid to see the most in my life.

- 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

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

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

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

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

It's cool to have instruments lying around because they give you different ideas.

It's cool to have instruments lying around because they give you different ideas.

- 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

I go to great pains to find the best yogurt and granola.

I go to great pains to find the best yogurt and granola.

- Ezra Koenig

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