Indie Quotes · Page 3

“You're smiling," Indie says. "I know." I say.”

— Ally Condie

Mal Blum's arrival on the indie scene gives us all hope for the future of smart music.

— Melissa Ferrick

I really want to be doing indie films or passion projects.

— Jenna Ortega

As a successful artist it is my job to give the indie scene as much of a push as I can.

— Badshah

When I was doing indie films, it wasn't cool and hip.

— Rosanna Arquette

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

— Dizzee Rascal

You wouldn't expect a Christian character to be an Indie rocker guy.

— Samuel Larsen

I'm not so interested in being indie just for the sake of being indie.

— Lykke Li

Indie world won't have me, and mainstream world treats me like an alien, but here I am still floating between these two…

— Billy Corgan

There are so many female directors coming into the industry and a lot of them have important stories they want to tell…

— Anne Fletcher

'Five Easy Pieces,' 'Easy Rider' - those are indie pictures; those were not studio pictures. They had relationships with studio distribution, but…

— Michael Douglas

It's a long process transitioning from indie to mainstream, and it's not that easy because it's a different environment when you are…

— Coco Martin

Some artists and indie musicians see Spotify fairly positively - as a way of getting noticed, of getting your music out there…

— David Byrne

I think indie films have more of a fresh, experimental vibe about them, whereas studio films know what they want and can…

— Kodi Smit-McPhee

To me, being a classical snob in the highest possible way and being an indie snob is just as bad!

— Mika

I know I'm not the 'Indie It Girl' and I'll never have a big breakout, big runaway success. And that's okay.

— Kathleen Edwards

I think, honestly, that the word 'indie' is a false gimmick. 'Independent' used to mean a movie that was financed outside corporate…

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I have plenty of dream roles because there is so much I want to do, but my dream year would be to…

— Katie Featherston

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

— Justin Vernon

Today, the era has changed. Everybody is indie now. Everybody making a random stupid mobile app is essentially indie, because they make…

— Jenova Chen

The only reason an indie gets made is because someone has a burning passion to do it and won't take no for…

— William H. Macy

“Indie House's members behave like a post-modern nuclear family, with each person alternating the role of parent. Sometimes Johnston cooks and sometimes…

— Anonymous

There's some freedom that you get with indie films that you don't get with the big-budget ones. There's just a different style.…

— Maika Monroe

I kept thinking, 'How do you make a modern musical?' Then it became clear that I could do it just like a…

— John Carney

I knew that I tend to always gravitate to the indie side of things.

— Aaron Paul

I would love to do an indie film, as I've grown to have a more serious side.

— Christina Milian

I do indie films for the sense of fulfillment and to achieve my goals as an artist.

— Coco Martin

I love indie movies - I feel they can really allow you to develop a character.

— Emma Kenney

We don't want it to be obscure music. We're not trying to be indie. We want to be popular.

— Kelela

I don't understand indie films. So, I won't do such films.

— Taapsee Pannu

“All indies self-publish but not all self-publishers are indie.”

— Orna Ross

To go indie is a thing. But to put an album in the stores, you need a distribution label.

— Drake

“It was the freedom to experiment that made this experiment called Freedom possible.”

— Justin Sirois

I think there was a real lane built for indie bands during the time when Chairlift came up.

— Caroline Polachek

“She had words in her heart which she released thru her fingertips.”

— Eveli Acosta

The indie movie world is like a bad Tinder date, and there are always strings attached.

— Whitney Cummings

I'm the anti indie-rocker. My stuff isn't ironic.

— Sxip Shirey

Maybe I could do some indie film and get my kit off. I'd never say never.

— Konnie Huq

You want every film that you make to do well, not just indie films in general.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

I think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty.

— Alex Kapranos