American - Musician | April 14, 1980 -
The cliched rock life never seemed that cool to me.
Win Butler
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Our music may sound big emotionally, but that's more to do with the playing, the level of musicianship and the full-on energy. Often, the lyrics are often quite small and focused.
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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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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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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 think there's some pretty amazing language in the Bible.
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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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I never really felt super-Texan. It wasn't like I was unhappy, but I wasn't superhappy.
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The idea of peer critique, of talking about each other's art - I just found it so useless.
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I'm not someone who can dance to a song I don't like.
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The idea of dancing to bad house music is something I could never get behind.
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I don't like to talk about other bands in interviews.
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