Usually, I think you have most of your musical influences locked down by the time you're 16. — Win Butler Copy Share Image
There are so many bands that I'm kind of aware of through media about them, and it ends up filtering my experience… — Win Butler Copy Share Image
It would get really alienating, to have my face be the face of a cause. So much just comes down to the… — Win Butler Copy Share Image
There's this idea, particularly in pop music and a lot of these pop father/manager types, that you're selling the person instead of… — Win Butler Copy Share Image
Funny songs aren't usually that good. Like Weird Al and maybe a couple of Beatles songs, but it's kind of hard to… — Win Butler Copy Share Image
I think filmmakers all secretly wanna be musicians and all musicians secretly wanna be filmmakers. — Win Butler Copy Share Image
The music in Haiti is all tied up in voodoo and African rhythm, and so there's this funny thing: go to a… — Win Butler Copy Share Image
The idea of dancing to bad house music is something I could never get behind. — Win Butler Copy Share Image
I was really sick of bands just ignoring the audience as a posture in rock music. And I think we fed off… — Win Butler Copy Share Image
Our music may sound big emotionally, but that's more to do with the playing, the level of musicianship and the full-on energy.… — Win Butler Copy Share Image
It seems like the record industry made so much crazy money in the 1960s that everyone wanted to get in on it.… — Win Butler Copy Share Image
I don't think the emotional quality is the defining quality of the music but it's definitely something that people have picked up… — Win Butler Copy Share Image
When I was younger, bands helped me connect to part of my humanity; bands that had nothing to do with anything political… — Win Butler Copy Share Image
Music is made by individuals. Some artists will be very politically overt in their songs, some will be more subtle. You have… — Win Butler Copy Share Image
I think there's some pretty amazing language in the Bible. The thing that's always been interesting to me about religion is that compared to… — Win Butler Copy Share Image
Usually, I think you have most of your musical influences locked down by the time you're 16. — Win Butler Copy Share Image
I find myself a lot more open to bands if I just hear their song. It gives you an opportunity to engage with the… — Win Butler Copy Share Image
Whenever you do anything or say anything, you're opening yourself up to criticism. But that's okay. — Win Butler Copy Share Image
What I miss [about church] is being forced to be in community with people that aren't the same as me. — Win Butler Copy Share Image
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… — Win Butler Copy Share Image
Songwriting is reliant on inspiration, which ideally you don't have that much control over. Songs kind of half make themselves, and then you have… — Win Butler Copy Share Image
Major labels just lost their way. It's like the housing bubble. They lost a sense of the fundamentals. — Win Butler Copy Share Image
Once I got to know what's been happening historically, it's pretty impossible to un-know it. Like right now, there's the outbreak of cholera in… — Win Butler Copy Share Image
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