Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
Samuel Butler
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
The idea of dancing to bad house music is something I could never get behind.
Win Butler
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... →
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... →
There are so many bands that I'm kind of aware of through media about them, and it ends up filtering my experience of the actual music.
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... →
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... →
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... →