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• Major labels just lost their way. It's like the housing bubble. They lost a sense of the fundamentals.

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  Labels, Fundamentals, Way

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• 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.

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  Beautiful, Church, Artistic

  "Arcade Fire". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. October 4, 2010.

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

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  Writing, Self, Trying

  "Arcade Fire". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. October 4, 2010.

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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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  College, Boston, Care

  "Arcade Fire". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. October 4, 2010.

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• 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.

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  Crazy, People, Records

  "Arcade Fire". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. October 4, 2010.

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• I always find live shows on film kind of boring. Even my favorite ones, I kinda zone out for most of it. It's just so different seeing a band in the flesh and then watching a film of it, even if you have a hundred cameras and it's shot from every angle. There's just a communal, visceral thing that never translates very well.

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  Different, Kind, Film

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Once I got to know what's been happening historically, it's pretty impossible to un-know it. Like right now, there's the outbreak of cholera in Haiti, and people see that as a news headline, but I know there's half a billion dollars of aid that one senator is putting a hold on, that the Red Cross has raised half a billion dollars but has only spent $200 million.

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  People, Impossible, Aids

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I think when you've been in a band for a really long time, sometimes you don't appreciate what's good about yourself. It's easy to play something and get too focused on some small detail. It's helpful to have somebody around who can say, "No, that was good." Just so you don't get too lost or forget what you do. You need somebody you really trust who has great taste.

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  Thinking, Long, Appreciate

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In the UK, tons of records are now sold in grocery stores, because there are no record stores - it's iTunes or the grocery store. And almost every band that had an impact on me was on a major label. There's value in people actually hearing things, as well.

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  People, Values

  "Arcade Fire’s Band Aid for Haiti". Interview With Alan Light, www.motherjones.com. January/February 2011.

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• There's an obligation to let people know where their money is going, so the tour has an educational aspect, mostly as a way to thank people. But the most practical use is to raise money and do the research to figure out the proper ways to spend it. You want to make sure that the money doesn't just go somewhere where it does more harm than good.

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  Educational, People, Obligation

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• There's the idea that you have to know how to solve the world's problems in order to feel that something is morally wrong. I'm always back and forth between optimism and depression about the situation.

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  Optimism, Problem, Situation

  Source: www.avclub.com

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