I'm like the Fugitive, running from the one-armed indie-rock community! — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
NME is normally associated with indie rock. It ain't something I read as a kid. — Dizzee Rascal Copy Share Image
It's just weird that indie rock heads and so on are connecting to my music. — Prefuse 73 Copy Share Image
A lot of the music I listen to is indie rock. It's not on the radio. — Laura Bell Bundy Copy Share Image
Hip-hop is mostly what I listen to, other than jazz. I've given up on pop music and indie rock. — Jess Row Copy Share Image
I didn't grow up with indie rock - I mean, I listened to bands that are considered indie rock, but I think… — Justin Vernon Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I'm so disconnected from an indie-rock community that I am the hermit people used to guess I was. — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
Generally I try to read anything but indie rock journalism or anything about music at all, especially in the summer. — Emily Haines Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
This indie rock stuff, I mean I like it, too - it pushes all my buttons: sex appeal, dissonance. It's emotive, disenchanted. — Ketch Secor Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
People who like progressive music tend to sneer at the idea of a kind of punk aesthetic, and people who like alternative… — Steven Wilson Copy Share Image
In the beginning I was just a makeup artist and I never really pictured myself doing anything else. But now that I… — Jeffree Star Copy Share Image
I've always found that whatever you say about indie rock, it is the most inclusive genre or title for anything. It doesn't… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
I think the indie-rock world is very creative. They're always looking for something new, and I think of all the instruments we… — Tiesto Copy Share Image
I've always found that whatever you say about indie rock, it is the most inclusive genre or title for anything. It doesn't… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
In high school I was in a band called Goodfight, but it was more me running around on stage. It was very… — Angel Olsen Copy Share Image
We create music to express ourselves and when the world relates, that’s a beautiful thing. We’re all trading off each other’s culture,… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
A lot of the music I was inspired by growing up - college rock, DIY, what they used to call indie rock… — David Longstreth Copy Share Image
Of course you want to keep making good records, but I think there were certain aspects to the indie rock situation at… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Licensing is how indie rock people make a living these days, so whatever about that. But I want good films and good… — Justin Vernon Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“[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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The only Train song I like is the one that I play in my act "Drops Of Jupiter". Sheryl Crow has three… — Michael Showalter Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
I guess my music taste is pretty predictable: I like new indie rock stuff, older stuff. — Aziz Ansari Copy Share Image
I actually think that Republican administrations are better for music. The Reagan era was such a great era for punk and indie… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
The second 'Postal Service' album is threatening to become the 'Chinese Democracy' of indie rock. It will come out eventually, or maybe… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
I like the glamorous indie rock look, like The Libertines. But you know, without the heroin needle sticking out of my arm. — Ed Westwick Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“It was too hot for leather jackets even if you were a wannabe indie rock star in your very wildest dreams.” — Sarra Manning Copy Share Image
Even the indie rock world - which is supposed to be about truth and independence from corporate mindfulness or something - is… — Justin Vernon Copy Share Image
I was trained at classical piano as a youngster back in PA. To rebel, I bought a drum set and played in… — Jeff Cardoni Copy Share Image
You kind of have to be like " What have you been working the last five years for? Why are you complaining?"… — Mac DeMarco Copy Share Image
![“Licensing is how indie rock people make a living these days, so whatever about that. But I want good films and good placement for the songs because I want to be exclusive. I don't want to just sign it away because I don't want songs to lose meaning, but I'm also...I don't care [that] Wilco sold…” quote by Justin Vernon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/745/justin-vernon-4380_care_licensing-is-how-indie-rock-people-make_317128.png)
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