Edwin Farnham Butler III (Win Butler) Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
-
Ever since childhood, when I found out that the ultimate fate for all humans was death, sheer terror and morbid curiosity had been fighting for supremacy in my mind.
-
The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.
-
I'm very ambitious, but I also love myself - which means I try to take care of myself.
-
I had to give myself permission to act, then others agreed.
-
There are secrets at the heart of every story; there is something that must be uncovered or discovered, both by the reader and by the characters.
-
Sometimes you're afraid to fall in love with a chick, but she sucks you in anyway.
-
Like the phoenix, socialism is reborn from every pile of ashes left day in, day out, by burnt-out human dreams and charred hopes.
-
People say they like my fashion-haul videos because it's like you've been shopping with your friends, and you look back over what you have bought.
-
Never dip lower than you can dip.
-
Kids don't hesitate to ask questions. And it's a great honor to have the kids say, 'Your books have made me trust you.'
-
Armenians and Azerbaijanis in Stepanakert, capital of the Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous region, rioted over much needed spelling reform in the Soviet Union.
-
You know, the way I'm accepted, I almost feel like Judy Garland, truly. It makes no sense to me because I don't think that I've been any more outspoken... Or maybe I have, I don't know. But everyone I know supports anything that has to do with raising money or with AIDS.
-
The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semihuman, and demonic but superhuman, spiritual, and, in the classical sense of the word, 'divine.'
-
Natura il fece, e poi roppe la stampa.
-
It is the natural effect of improvement, however, to diminish gradually the real price of almost all manufactures.
-
First novels tend to be blood-lettings, and they're focused on you, not the reader.
-
The artists in country music who stopped having hits are the ones who were led into something that wasn't them.
-
The farmers are older; they are under financial stress to produce more margins, yet they keep getting less.
-
I haven't changed. I'm still the same boy, and I'm just going to keep doing what I'm doing.
-
I like the idea of people who've had some success in one form secretly wanting to be something else; I have some of that myself. I look for it in other people who've established themselves in some particular art form, and then you find out that they really would like to design running shoes, or edit literary magazines or something.
-
I love being a freak. It's great!
-
I look at a nude. There are myriads of tiny tints. I must find the ones that will make the flesh on my canvas live and quiver.
-
You have these Stepford wives who are negating other women. But that's their job. [Donald] Trump is the one who is to blame, no matter how much I enjoy watching his surrogates fail massively.
-
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.
