Top 100 Hipster Quotes
#1. When I was young and I look at the things that I wrote - I don't think that was the word they used back then, but they had a hipster sensibility. They were a little irreverent.
John Ridley
#2. In such places as Greenwich Village, a menage-a-trois was completed- the bohemian and the juvenile delinquent came face-to-face with the Negro, and the hipster was a fact in American life.
Norman Mailer
#3. I'm always at the opposite end of the spectrum, the opposite of hipster culture, and I enjoy that.
Chad Kroeger
#4. The 'Hipster Nerds' like stuff because they hate it. It's like they ironically like it.
Chris Hardwick
#5. In small towns, bored teenagers turn their eyes longingly to the exciting doings in the big cities, pining for urban amenities like hipster bars and farmers' markets and indie-rock festivals. Like everyone else, they want the vibrant and they will not be denied.
Thomas Frank
#6. I'm not incredibly hipster. I wasn't cool enough to handle it.
Ashley Hinshaw
#7. I myself identify as a recovering Blockhead. You'd be surprised how many twenty- and thirty-something hipster chicks have the NKOTB skeleton in their closet, albeit artfully concealed by stacks of Ksubi skinny jeans and ironic Judas Priest T-shirts.
Diablo Cody
#8. The pride of the hipster food movement is sort of annoying, but it fascinates me.
Matt Stone
#9. The Westway, the old strip club on Clarkson Street, is still there, but today it's owned by a hipster restaurant entrepreneur who caters to the ironic cultural lifestylers, more fashion world than art, people who are "cool" because they live in New York.
Kim Gordon
#10. I remember first seeing Barney Kessel, in the 1940s, standing on the corner of Hollywood and Vine, in his cowboy boots, sun glasses and hipster threads, holding his guitar case man, you just knew that cat could wail!'
Anita O'Day
#11. The difference being that a nerd would wear a D&D shirt because he loves D&D while a hipster would wear a D&D shirt because it's ridiculous that he is wearing a D&D shirt.
Chris Hardwick
#12. Unless you're in an early seventies-era Eagles cover band, a founding member of a religious cult, or sleeping under a bridge in Seattle, lose the beard and get a haircut. Power doesn't have time for any form of hirsute hipster self expression.
Ari Gold
#13. Amusement, even ironic amusement, is the beginning of sincere appreciation, as any lapsed hipster knows.
Last Man Standing
#14. I've been meaning to write about the Rolling Stones, but I am the furthest thing from a hipster rock journalist.
Diablo Cody
#15. The key for hipsters is that they usually try really hard, but the important thing is they want to come across like they don't try. To make it look effortless. I don't mind. It really fits New York, the hipster look.
Henrik Lundqvist
#16. I'm in favour of hipster androgyny: Any trend that permits men to rebel against strict gender rules of appearance is going to make the world a more expressive and sensitive place for all of us.
Russell Smith
#17. The category I come closest to is 'lumberjack hipster.'
Kyle Kinane
#18. A thing we always talk about in today's culture is that nobody is an outsider - everybody's kind of a hipster on the inside.
Chris Stein
#19. Passivity is really a crappy substitute for manhood. But it's as common as facial hair on a hipster, or salmon-breath on a grizzly bear.
Josh Hatcher
#20. Wow, if Portlanders could do that to a biker, they could turn anyone into a hipster.
Joanna Wylde
#21. If a fan comes up and it is a middle-aged lady, it is probably from 'Prime'; if it is a younger girl, it is probably from when I guest-starred on 'One Tree Hill.' And if it is, like, a skateboard kid or a hipster kid, I can tell they are 'How to Make It' fans.
Bryan Greenberg
#22. If I just stuck to pot I might have found out what a drag being an aging hipster actually was.
Lenny Bruce
#23. I'm not a good hipster - if I let my moustache grow for weeks, it just looks like I have dirt on my face. I'll never have a glorious handlebar moustache.
Win Butler
#24. I ain't no hipster, but girl I can make your hips stir.
Mac Miller
#25. There's no ironic appreciation of things we love, even of things that are in fact ridiculous, which a hipster might take and own and show the world the humor in it.
Chris Hardwick
#26. She covered her body with a feather, reached under her legs, and threw her panties into the audience. A flying herpes rag. A hipster with mutton-chop sideburns caught it. He crumpled it in his fist and thrust it into the air excitedly. His little venereal prize. A
Neil Strauss
#27. I've always balked at anything that feels like a clique, even if it's not always in my best interest to do so. I like each individual, fedora-wearing hipster - it's just the greater gestalt that rubs me the wrong way.
Michael Showalter
#28. I grew up listening to hipster jazz and classical records ... we went and watched ballet and orchestras - lots of cool stuff. Which I'm really grateful for - it's pretty nice being introduced to that when you're little.
Courtney Barnett
#29. Part of growing up is not waiting in line at a hipster breakfast restaurant. The eggs taste the same across the street. I promise.
Jason Segel
#31. Jesus," I said into the phone. "I'm an establishment pseudo-hipster." "The funny thing about that," my so-called friend answered, "is that you are." "Fuck you," I said.
Matt Taibbi
#32. Because rage and violence are human emotions and drives and capacities that inhabit us all. SEE CARL JUNG. Or that hipster Joseph Campbell. Because we all take archetypal journeys in a million ways - literal, symbolic, you name it - that figure, disfigure, and refigure violence.
Lidia Yuknavitch
#33. I was the Head Boy of East High School in 1999. I represent 303 - the area code, not the band - Mile High, until I die. I'm 31, a comedian; I juggle, but I don't glove it. I think waxed mustaches run a very thin line between hipster and 1800s barkeep.
T. J. Miller
#34. I don't feel like I'm very pop-star lame, but I'm definitely not hipster-cool.
Katy Perry
#35. It is. I'm your boyfriend now, which
means there's no room for your hipster admirer. He'll just have to lick his wounds while we lick other things.
Kylie Scott
#36. As hipster chicks age, and their skin starts to sag, tramp stamps sink below waistbands, like the sun slipping into the sea ...
Dana Gould
#38. My dad was a big fan of comedy. He wanted to be a stand-up. He loved Lenny [Bruce]. He also loved Lord Buckley and jazz and stuff. He was a hipster. My parents were kind of beatnik-y, you know, for Salt Lake City. But my humor, I think, came from wanting to disarm people before they hit me.
Judd Apatow
#39. In carrying on this hipster virus I live a locust-like existence, exhausting and shedding myself in ruination from one life to the next.
Nate Powell
#40. I'm definitely not a muscle builder or a guy that's interested in being a muscle builder. It feels good to get back down to a normal size. Not like a hipster size or a buff-guy size, but just a normal, 34-waist guy.
Anthony Mackie
#41. I want a guy who is masculine, good with his hands and able to build stuff and who has survival skills. Facial hair is a big turn-on. Most of the kids I hang out with in New York are hipster arty types, but I like a stronger, more physically imposing man - like a lumberjack.
Chloe Sevigny
#42. New York feels like the whole city is into dance music. That's not how it felt when I was younger. There was more of a hipster scene.
Diplo
#43. I can't be one of those hipster guys with a beard when I have a hair campaign. I strive to look a little bit more ... all-American.
C. J. Wilson
#44. I guess people would categorize hipster rap just by how people look, skinny jeans and fashion rap. I was never that. In my music I never put the emphasis on clothes.
Fashawn
#45. Fact: The new '90210' is cooler than the old '90210.' It's the lithe, streamlined Skipper to the elder series' venerable Barbie. Gone are the traditional parents - they've been replaced by a hipster mom n' pop who get busted necking in the car.
Diablo Cody
#46. Where I'm from," Tom tilted his head to the side, "they call your kind a hipster or a lumbersexual, with the beard and flannel and such."
Without missing beat, Jethro responded, "Ah. See, where I'm from, they call my kind a man.
Penny Reid
#47. Leave it up to hipster nerds to pretend to hate something that they actually want
Tucker Max
#48. 'Heartbeats' is a film on people magnifying and subliming reality when they're in love. Hence the overstylized look, the aesthetics, the robes, the dresses, the vintage, hipster-ish look: All of this is voluntary. I'm not a hipster. I'm not!
Xavier Dolan
#49. Eh. Hipster's not really a thing anymore. Plus, hipster or out of touch old dude? Same uniform really ...
Patrick Stump
#50. I've always found that word ["hipster"] is used with such disdain, like it's always used by chubby bloggers who aren't getting laid anymore and are bored, and they're just so mad at these young kids for going out and getting wasted and having fun and being fashionable,
Gavin McInnes
#51. I looked like a hipster who broke his arm at a Vampire Weekend concert or some shit like that.
Karina Halle
#52. The defining characteristic of a hipster - the thing everyone agreed on, and most hated about them - wasn't so much their taste, but their contempt and condescension toward those less cool than themselves.
Mara Wilson
#53. I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I'm not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don't want to come off egotistical.
Jack White
#54. I've never been into alternative, hipster rap music.
Harmony Korine
#55. He wasn't my type
my type was more the skinny hipster boys in girl jeans and thick glasses, a.k.a. the first ones to go during the outbreak
but the sight still had me staring.
Domashita Romero
#56. If I'm not barefoot, you'll probably find me with a pair of New Balance on. And I'm not one of those hipster-jump-on-the-band-wagon-ironically-cool NB fans. I've been rocking those kicks since they were true nerd shoes. Since the '80s, yo! Word.
Reid Scott
#57. That could be made into a sad song, Simon supposed. 'If they are eggs, why are they gray? Who can say, who can say?'
Admittedly, "Why Are the Eggs So Gray?" might not be a big hit, even on the hipster circuit.
Cassandra Clare
#58. I'm very hip-oriented. I focus on hips in my comedy - probably more than any other hipster comic who is out there hipping today. My hips, other hips. I work with my hips a great deal. That is what I do. But not in a gay way.
Demetri Martin
#59. I don't know the difference between a hippie and a hipster but, it's fun to watch either one of them get beat up.
Norm MacDonald
#60. But I'd say 'How to Make It in America' is the most accurate depiction of the New York hipster community on television for sure.
Lake Bell
#61. If it is a glance about me, I will die. We are amused by the sad chubby girl who is clearly enchanted by our hipster beauty.
Becky Albertalli
#62. All of them thought Georgia was weird. Then and now, it takes nerve to be weird - and I mean genuinely out of step with everyone else, not hipster-weird, where you affect the weirdness embraced by everyone else at the coffee shop.
Karen Karbo
#63. Don't swear in the Literal Heart of Jesus.
John Green
#64. My theory is that the only people who hate hipsters are hipsters.
Kemp Muhl
#65. Hipsters, flipsters and finger-poppin' daddies: knock me your lobes.
Lord Buckley
#66. They couldn't bear the idea of death being a big black nothing.
John Green
#67. I see no greatness in my self ... I'm a simple-minded, child-like, insipid sort of moronic and kind of akward feeling adolescent.
Neal Cassady
#68. When we reached the lobby outside the office, moving like a pair of power walkers
no running in the halls of Green Pastures because there was too much chance of knocking over one of the many ethereal, artistic types wandering around in hip glasses with the wrong prescription ... (39)
Susan Juby
#69. Get out of my dreams, get into my car.
Billy Ocean
#70. You completely unscatter me, and I appreciate that too much.
John Green
#71. Our lives are composed of a finite set of moments that we choose how to spend.
John Green
#72. We only have so long to play in the dirt and ask questions of rivers.
John Green
#75. Vulnerability is beautiful to me. There might be a need to fabricate your own beauty paradigms. I guess I never quite bought into any kind of 'standard'.
Hedi Slimane
#76. I believe everyone is on a spiritual path - some people know it, some don't. The ones that know it call themselves religious, spiritual, or Soul Searchers.
Emma Mildon
#77. All the things paper-thin and paper-frail, and all the people too.
John Green
#79. The most interesting hipsters are ones who stop being hipsters.
Greg Fitzsimmons
#80. I didn't even know what the feeling was, really, just that there was a lot of it.
John Green
#81. I was a fairly shy person - not the hand raising type.
John Green
#82. We have a strategic plan. It's called 'doing things'.
Herb Kelleher
#84. I don't write music for critics or hipsters. I write for me.
John Rzeznik
#85. But there's so much to do: cigarettes to smoke, sex to have, swings to swing on.
John Green
#86. Every second of your definitionally temporary consciousness, you are choosing how you spend something that will not last forever.
John Green
#87. Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.
Charles Bukowski
#88. Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
#89. I leaned in toward her, suddenly overwhelmed with the feeling that we must kiss.
John Green
#91. I'm beat to the square, and square to the beat, and that's my vocation.
William Everson
#92. Our children are weird. Nicely phrased.
John Green
#93. I honestly think hipsters eat with their assholes because they consume everything wrong.
Chris Hardwick
#94. I sued American Apparel because they calculatingly took my name, my likeness and image and used them publicly to promote their business.
Woody Allen
#95. Man can find no better retreat from the world than art, and man can find no stronger link with the world than art.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#96. When I see hipsters wearing Mao hats or Lenin T-shirts, I'm grateful. It's like truth-in-labeling. For now I know you are: Woefully ignorant, morally stunted, purposively asinine, or all three.
Jonah Goldberg
#98. You say into my cracks and I saw into yours.
John Green
#99. The thing about hipsters is that they take very seriously trying to make themselves look like they don't take themselves seriously.
Chris Hardwick
#100. You could drive past it without noticing and from what I understand, you ought to.
John Green
