Indie Bands Quotes

#1. First off, I don't want anyone to think I'm this huge thing in Japan. Every group from here that's made any records over any length of time - even indie bands - have a Cheap Trick effect in Japan.

Matthew Sweet

#2. I tried so many different musics. I kind of burned out on classical and wanted to make it fun again. I started playing with indie bands and country bands and finally realized electronic music brought my style to life.

Lindsey Stirling

#3. I have so many indie bands on my iPod. What I don't really understand is the attitude that if a band is unknown, they're good, and if they get fans, then you move on to the next band.

Taylor Swift

#4. They praise these tiny indie bands, but if a band finally gets mainstream success, the same people who praised them attack them for 'selling out.' People often play at being nonconformists to mask their own feelings of not fitting in.

Kyle Baker

#5. I was still doing the punk thing, but also playing in some indie bands, I had a less crazy hairstyle.

Tony Palermo

#6. I had a band called the Sound Of Love, and that was R&B songs about girls in my high school. I played in some other indie bands who were trying to make it big; those sucked. Then I started Makeout Videotape, and that was that.

Mac DeMarco

#7. There's a whole apparatus for indie bands now, but back in the eighties it was just getting built. The early people really took it on the chin.

Michael Azerrad

#8. The pirating thing is bad. The people it hurts the most are the ones you least think it hurts. It's not the big Britney Spears albums that are being pirated; it's the indie bands that don't have two cents to their name.

Rob Zombie

#9. When we opened Babbo, we were an indie band. Now we're kinda Apple. We have 19 restaurants and 2,800 employees, we are no longer perceived as the indie band although we think of ourselves as the indie band, and we operate our restaurants as individual indie bands.

Mario Batali

#10. I've had Range Rovers for a few years actually.

Mick Ralphs

#11. Cowdenbeath Football Club have always been at the centre of Cowdenbeath - literally and in every aspect of community life.

Gordon Brown

#12. I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something's not good enough, and I won't stop until I feel like I've made it. I'm never satisfied.

J. Cole

#13. The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Francis Bacon

#14. I was trained at classical piano as a youngster back in PA. To rebel, I bought a drum set and played in some rock & roll bands. In college I picked up a guitar and became obsessed with practicing which led to playing guitar in indie rock bands in the mid 90's. Which led me to Los Angeles.

Jeff Cardoni

#15. Be absolutely assured that we will die long before our own deaths if we ever allow the fear of adulthood to kill the wonder of childhood.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#16. Back pain is the single most common reason people visit the doctor.

A. J. Jacobs

#17. I loved 'Belzhar' by Meg Wolitzer.

Kaui Hart Hemmings

#18. (Responding to a sneeze from the audience) Who exploded?

Victor Borge

#19. One thing I always make - and I'm sure this is partly to do with memory and yearning and because I've made it ever since my children were born - I make gingerbread every year. And it's partly just the perfume of the spices in the house, makes it smell like winter to me.

Bee Wilson

#20. I'm just not a big fan of the too-cool-for-school indie world. Metal bands have never been invited or been able to be part of the cool kids, and I like it that way.

Scott Ian

#21. But, then again, I wouldn't call myself an indie-rock supporter even if there are some really good bands out there and there will always be some real good new bands.

Stephen Malkmus

#22. 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

#23. We warp space and time to twist the galaxy to our own design.

James Luceno

#24. I didn't grow up with indie rock - I mean, I listened to bands that are considered indie rock, but I think that term is dead and uninteresting.

Justin Vernon

#25. That suddenly, these things can exist and you're not quite sure how they existed without you knowing about them before.

Pleasefindthis

#26. Always seek people who will add value to your life and bring out the best in you. And of course, be that person for others.

Hal Elrod