Win Butler Quotes
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When I was living in Boston, I worked in this store that played the college radio station. I had to listen to it all day, and I didn't care for most of it.
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I grew up in a somewhat religious family. My dad's family isn't religious at all, but my mom's side of the family is, so I was exposed to church a bit.
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I found out a lot of stuff through MTV, and I didn't even have cable, I just saw it at friends' houses. But my culture in junior high was totally influenced by it.
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Being in a rock band, I feel a certain responsibility to have a weird haircut. I mean, who else gets to do that?
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The film 'Black Orpheus' is one of my favorite films of all time, which is set in Carnival in Brazil.
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The music in Haiti is all tied up in voodoo and African rhythm, and so there's this funny thing: go to a voodoo ceremony, and then go to a Catholic church and tell me which music you liked better, to which one the music is more integral.
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I'm not practising, I don't go to church, but what I got from it was a sense of belonging to something bigger. What I really miss is being forced to be in a community with people that aren't the same as you. Then, you really have to work through the ways that you're different.
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I'm not someone who can dance to a song I don't like.
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I never really felt super-Texan. It wasn't like I was unhappy, but I wasn't superhappy.
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A lot of people get really stuck in this idea that everything's been done and there's nowhere left to go.
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I feel like I'm kind of a bit of a sponge in a way. Like, if people around me are going through things, I find it very hard not to be empathetic.