Indie rock Quotes

A lot of the music I listen to is indie rock. It's not on the radio.

— Laura Bell Bundy

NME is normally associated with indie rock. It ain't something I read as a kid.

— Dizzee Rascal

I'm like the Fugitive, running from the one-armed indie-rock community!

— Billy Corgan

It's just weird that indie rock heads and so on are connecting to my music.

— Prefuse 73

I'm always into rock n' roll and indie rock.

— Mischa Barton

I listen to a lot of indie or rock music.

— Jennifer Damiano

“It was too hot for leather jackets even if you were a wannabe indie rock star in your very wildest dreams.”

— Sarra Manning

I like the glamorous indie rock look, like The Libertines. But you know, without the heroin needle sticking out of my arm.

— Ed Westwick

I do get the sense sometimes that if I draw things too nice, maybe I won't be indie-rock enough anymore.

— Bryan Lee O'Malley

The second 'Postal Service' album is threatening to become the 'Chinese Democracy' of indie rock. It will come out eventually, or maybe…

— Ben Gibbard

I actually think that Republican administrations are better for music. The Reagan era was such a great era for punk and indie…

— Carrie Brownstein

I always thought of indie-rock as being rock music by bands that were on independent labels, and that's a great thing.

— Britt Daniel

Generally I try to read anything but indie rock journalism or anything about music at all, especially in the summer.

— Emily Haines

In indie rock, there's the phenomenon of: "Oh, this guy seems totally normal, but he's actually crazy." There's more of that out…

— Tom Scharpling

There's a bunch of cities I'm not crazy about, but I love Chicago. I love the musical history - the mid-'90s indie…

— James Ransone

I can pour myself into Bon Iver. It's a thing about self- and mental discovery, and those are all important things. But…

— Justin Vernon

I used to think of 'alternative rock' as a radio format, kind of the way 'indie rock' used to have more meaning.…

— Aaron Dessner

From dancing around to Michael Jackson and Madonna as a kid to having my mind blown by the first sounds of punk…

— Carrie Brownstein

When I started out as a music journalist, at the end of the 1980s, it was generally assumed that we were living…

— Rob Sheffield

But, then again, I wouldn't call myself an indie-rock supporter even if there are some really good bands out there and there…

— Stephen Malkmus

With Jubilee I had a natural interest to write about something on the opposite end of human experience - a real celebration…

— Michelle Zauner

When we first came out it was this happy accident, and I was sort of into hardcore at the time. Jordan our…

— Chad Gilbert

To begin with, the key principle of American indie rock wasn't a circumscribed musical style; it was the punk ethos of DIY,…

— Michael Azerrad

The only Train song I like is the one that I play in my act "Drops Of Jupiter". Sheryl Crow has three…

— Michael Showalter

“[H]e asked Renee, “What does rock and roll have today that it didn’t have in the sixties?” Renee said, “Tits,” which in…

— Rob Sheffield

This was early '90s and in New York hip-hop was coming on really strong; that was the sort of urban folk music…

— Lee Ranaldo

Licensing is how indie rock people make a living these days, so whatever about that. But I want good films and good…

— Justin Vernon

Of course you want to keep making good records, but I think there were certain aspects to the indie rock situation at…

— Lee Ranaldo

If I like hardcore straight-edge punk music, gentle psychedelic folk music, gangster rap, indie-rock with a lot of guitar pedals, and I…

— Jeffrey Lewis

“I remember the summer of 1996, at a drunken wedding with one of my professors, a Hendrix-freak baby boomer, when he was…

— Rob Sheffield

“I’d forgotten about them until this very moment, pushed out of my memory from years of dating boys in indie rock bands,…

— Megan Stielstra

I'm so disconnected from an indie-rock community that I am the hermit people used to guess I was.

— John Darnielle

I didn't grow up with indie rock - I mean, I listened to bands that are considered indie rock, but I think…

— Justin Vernon

Hip-hop is mostly what I listen to, other than jazz. I've given up on pop music and indie rock.

— Jess Row

I guess my music taste is pretty predictable: I like new indie rock stuff, older stuff.

— Aziz Ansari

I'm real critical of myself. I think a lot of what I've done is boring indie rock. I didn't intend it to…

— Bradford Cox

This indie rock stuff, I mean I like it, too - it pushes all my buttons: sex appeal, dissonance. It's emotive, disenchanted.

— Ketch Secor

Indie rock is just as susceptible - if not more susceptible - to all the gross things about people becoming total ass…

— Justin Vernon

I really do listen to all types of music, not only rock, but everything from good pop music - which is usually…

— Amy Lee

I don't really listen to the radio anymore, but some of the more contemporary people I like are Stereolab, Spiritualize, Yo La…

— Dean Wareham