Win Butler
Win Butler
Edwin Farnham "Win" Butler IIIis an American lead vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter of the Montreal-based indie rock band Arcade Fire. His wife Régine Chassagne and younger brother Will Butler are both members of the band...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth14 April 1980
CityTruckee, CA
CountryUnited States of America
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Whenever you're talking about meaning, basically... I think a lot of the human experience has to do with trying to understand what things mean, and there's not really any tools to do that unless you're thinking about it in a more spiritual or philosophical realm.
thinking musician filmmaker
I think filmmakers all secretly wanna be musicians and all musicians secretly wanna be filmmakers.
thinking careers want
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.
emotional thinking people
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
thinking media years
I think of hip hop as a mass media, radio, MTV thing. It’s been extremely relevant over the last 10 years and rock music is just not anymore—-a tear rolls down my cheek as I say that.
benefits haiti health work
The work that Partners in Health do in Haiti benefits the whole world.
dreams people save
People say that your dreams are the only thing that save ya,
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Funny songs aren't usually that good. Like Weird Al and maybe a couple of Beatles songs, but it's kind of hard to bring humor into rock music in an interesting way.
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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 was really sick of bands just ignoring the audience as a posture in rock music. And I think we fed off each other in terms of trying to engage the audience, not in a hammy way, but actually trying to be aware of the space that you are playing in and trying to connect in some way through the music.
arcade bunch burned growing
When I was growing up, someone told me a story about an arcade that burned down and killed a bunch of kids,
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We've only toured in one-month chunks, ... We started in November, then we took Christmas off, then we started again in January, and we took some time in February. And then we did a little bit in March, and then we had a bit of time off this summer. The longest break we had, the first time we went home, was for June and July, and then we went back out again in August, and we'll be done at the end of October.
good kids
There are a lot of good kids out there. There are a lot of good teenagers. If you're good to them, they're good to you.
musical time
Usually, I think you have most of your musical influences locked down by the time you're 16.