Win Butler Quotes
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I had a somewhat religious upbringing. Not strict, but it was there, and I'm kind of thankful for that. If you grow up just watching MTV, that's its own form of religion, and it's not even based on happiness or communal responsibility. I mean, try to construct a worldview out of that.
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My parents live near the ocean, and I've spent a lot of time walking through the water at night, being around the water.
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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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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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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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I don't like to talk about other bands in interviews.
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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'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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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 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 never really felt super-Texan. It wasn't like I was unhappy, but I wasn't superhappy.