Edwin Farnham Butler III (Win Butler) Quotes

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.

Edwin Farnham Butler III Arcade Fire

• Music
• Thinking
• Rock
• Tears
• Hip Hop

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

  

  E. B. White
  • Time
  • Great
  • Funny

• America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • America
  • Artist
  • Talent

• Time Inc. has amazing titles - really great content.

  

  Laura Lang
  • Time
  • Great
  • Amazing

• PLease, do not visualize that we exist above you such as in heaven. The concepts above and below are products of your mind. The soul does not swing upwards. It exists in the center and orients itself in every direction.

  

  Hans Bender
  • Mind
  • Soul
  • Heaven

• In general, I think the world is a good place if you work hard, believe in yourself, have good intentions, and if you are kind to people, I believe that good things happen to you.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• I think it's flattering when people say I'm a role model, but I don't think I am. It depends on your outlook on the word 'role model.' I'm not perfect or anything. I just consider it a great compliment.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Perfect
  • Model
  • Role

• I'm doing my best to mindfully raise my son to feel safe and encouraged to express himself.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Best
  • Son
  • Doing

• I don't Twitter, although sometimes I think that I should.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Think
  • Sometimes
  • Twitter

• I enjoy Saturday night racing.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Night
  • Enjoy
  • Saturday

• Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Me
  • Hell
  • Shine

• Without being aware, I think I was being indoctrinated into what was called Vitalism, the idea that what makes life worth living, the good life, consists of accepting challenges, solving problems, discovery, personal growth, personal change.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Life
  • Good
  • Change

• You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • People
  • Angry
  • Humor

• I never lose confidence. As soon as you lose confidence, you're done.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Done
  • Confidence
  • Lose

• Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Band
  • Thought
  • Years

• Don't try to be like somebody else. You'll be miserable. You need to be yourself, and don't ever get a big head.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Yourself
  • Try
  • Be Yourself

• What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.

  

  E. F. Benson
  • Life
  • Man
  • Romantic

• Flip through the channels, and there is no denying it: The world of cable news - and their network chat-show brethren - is very, very white.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • World
  • News
  • White

• Our need for that exterior god that sits up there and judges us... will diminish and eventually disappear.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Up
  • God
  • Will

• I have a lot of different traits to my personality, depending on who I'm around, and what the dynamic in the situation is.

  

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead
  • Different
  • Personality

• The first purchase I made with my own money was a single by The Kinks, "All Day and All of the Night" and still one of my all time favorites.

  

  Gary Calamar
  • Time
  • Money
  • Night

• My work is really simple. They say 'action,' I do my stuff; they say, 'cut!'

  

  Art Malik
  • Work
  • Action
  • Simple

• I know that my unity with all people cannot be destroyed by national boundaries and government orders.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • People
  • Unity

• 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.

  

  Edwin Farnham Butler III Arcade Fire
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Rock