66 Quotes by Win Butler

It seems like the record industry made so much crazy money in the 1960s that everyone wanted to get in on it. Now it's just become very corporate. So all of these people who despise music end up being in charge.

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.

I try not get too self-aware when writing lyrics.

A lot of artists write about the same things their whole career.

While there are so many beautiful Baroque churches and it's a beautiful artistic tradition, it almost gets hideous and grotesque if you push it further. You can take something beautiful and overdo it.

I just wanted to make something in the world and worry about the rest of it later and not get too caught up in rules.

I think you have to want to be really famous. It's a lot easier to sabotage your career than to have a career to sabotage.

The film Black Orpheus is one of my favorite films of all time, which is set in Carnival in Brazil.

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