Quotes by Win Butler

Win Butler

A lot of artists write about the same things their whole career.

Artist

Careers

Writing

A lot of stuff is dark in a way, but unless you’re really looking at a situation for what it actually is, it’s hard to be hopeful – or meaningless to be hopeful about it unless it’s actually based in a real possibility.

Dark

Hopeful

Real

Being in a rock band, I feel a certain responsibility to have a weird haircut. I mean, who else gets to do that?

Mean

Responsibility

Rocks

I don’t think the emotional quality is the defining quality of the music but it’s definitely something that people have picked up on a lot

Emotional

People

Thinking

I just wanted to make something in the world and worry about the rest of it later and not get too caught up in rules.

Caught

World

Worry

I studied scriptural interpretation, which is more about how people get meaning out of texts, looking at stuff in the Old Testament – Muslims, Christians, Jews, different interpretations of the same texts.

Christian

Different

People

I think of hip hop as a mass media, radio, MTV thing. It’s been extremely relevant over the last 10 years and rock music is just not anymore—-a tear rolls down my cheek as I say that.

Media

Rocks

Thinking

I think when you’ve been in a band for a really long time, sometimes you don’t appreciate what’s good about yourself. It’s easy to play something and get too focused on some small detail. It’s helpful to have somebody around who can say, “No, that was good.” Just so you don’t get too lost or forget what you do. You need somebody you really trust who has great taste.

Appreciate

Long

Thinking

I think you have to want to be really famous. It’s a lot easier to sabotage your career than to have a career to sabotage.

Careers

Thinking

Want

If I was a cabinetmaker or a commercial fisherman, it would be the same question – how to connect to my world. The job we do affords us the opportunity to have people listen to what we say. But a lot of people have a similar situation: They’re trying to find a way to do some good.

Opportunity

People

Trying

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Black

Boston

Brazil

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Careers

Caught

Christian

Church

College

Community

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Dancing

Dark

Different

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Effort

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Film

Forever

Fundamentals

Growing Up

Hopeful

House

Humanity

Ideas

Impossible

Labels

Long

Mean

Media

Missing

Obligation

Okay

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People

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Real

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Rocks

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Quotes by Win Butler

Win Butler

A lot of artists write about the same things their whole career.

A lot of stuff is dark in a way, but unless you’re really looking at a situation for what it actually is, it’s hard to be hopeful – or meaningless to be hopeful about it unless it’s actually based in a real possibility.

Being in a rock band, I feel a certain responsibility to have a weird haircut. I mean, who else gets to do that?

I don’t think the emotional quality is the defining quality of the music but it’s definitely something that people have picked up on a lot

I just wanted to make something in the world and worry about the rest of it later and not get too caught up in rules.

I studied scriptural interpretation, which is more about how people get meaning out of texts, looking at stuff in the Old Testament – Muslims, Christians, Jews, different interpretations of the same texts.

I think of hip hop as a mass media, radio, MTV thing. It’s been extremely relevant over the last 10 years and rock music is just not anymore—-a tear rolls down my cheek as I say that.

I think you have to want to be really famous. It’s a lot easier to sabotage your career than to have a career to sabotage.

If I was a cabinetmaker or a commercial fisherman, it would be the same question – how to connect to my world. The job we do affords us the opportunity to have people listen to what we say. But a lot of people have a similar situation: They’re trying to find a way to do some good.

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