Edwin Farnham Butler III (Win Butler) Quotes

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

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• When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.

  

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• Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.

  

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• None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

  

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• I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.

  

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• I'm privileged to have had some success, but I've never forgotten what it was like to queue for a half-crown gallery seat for 'Oliver!' which is why I ensure that there are £20 day tickets for 'Miss Saigon' and that the balconies in my theatres are as comfortable as I can possibly make them.

  

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• Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.

  

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• I'm very spiritual. I meditate every day. I don't know if that's surprising or not, but I've been doing that since I was 16 every day, so that's like kind of my thing. I'm really a hippie-chick at heart.

  

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• And since Italy was involved in the space station as well as signed an agreement with NASA. And when the possibility to enter the 1996 Mission Specialist class.

  

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• Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.

  

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• Democratic accountability means that governments must be popularly accepted, with citizens empowered to replace corrupt or incompetent rulers.

  

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• Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.

  

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• I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit.

  

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• I don't want to rap forever. But I want to be rich forever.

  

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• Music was always part of my life - my mother says I came out singing. I wanted to be Gene Kelly - or Judy Garland.

  

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• I was always looking to record, but how much I actually pursued it was another thing. The major labels weren't that interested in me, and the smaller labels didn't have any money to do anything.

  

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• Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics.

  

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• I have a twitter, but I try to not talk about things like, "Oh, I had a grapefruit this morning and it was delicious," because, who cares? But, I think it can serve as a platform for talking about things that matter to me, like the organizations that I work with. As pretentious as that sounds, it is true. You can really make a difference, if you can create a following and actually represent who you are, as opposed to how people want to portray you. But, I don't know what the balance is.

  

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• In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior. In America, it's an excuse for a form of behavior.

  

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  • Artist
  • Behavior
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• 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

  

  Edwin Farnham Butler III Arcade Fire
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