Quotes About Indie Rock Music

#1. Dream-start with dream. Start tonight-become who you want-dream big!" He became animated at this point, "No money needed for dreams. Dreams are free.

Brian Joyce

#2. Indie rock is just as susceptible - if not more susceptible - to all the gross things about people becoming total ass clowns in music, and only worrying about money and image. I'm not interested in being a part of that.

Justin Vernon

#3. Now that the generation that grew up on '80s indie-rock has attained influential positions in the culture, that music is the new yardstick. And that will shift yet again some day.

Michael Azerrad

#4. I really do listen to all types of music, not only rock, but everything from good pop music - which is usually older pop music - to R&B and indie rock. I love indie rock more than a lot of the commercial stuff that you'd expect.

Amy Lee

#5. I love you, Jemmaline Girard. I always have and I always will. You are my future and my forever. You have already claimed the deepest part of my soul, femme de mon coeur.

Katlyn Charlesworth

#6. Character isn't something you talk about; it's something you show through your actions-through your every day habits.

Brian Joyce

#7. Values come to you by what you hear.

Sunday Adelaja

#8. Popularity is like a girl in class that you can't ignore. She give you eyes when no one looks then turns to her friends and laughs some more.

Brian Joyce

#9. That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds.

Charles Dickens

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

Jess Row

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

Laura Bell Bundy

#12. I listen to all those kinds of music, from classic soul to hip-hop to Brazilian music to, you know, jazz to indie to alternative. So whatever. I listen to all if it. Classic rock and classic pop, all of that.

John Legend

#13. The price of coming from a small town is that everyone knows your story. Your book has been read, shelved, dusted, and re-read by everybody.

Brian Joyce

#14. Oh! let me love forever.
Let me die in love.
Life is valueless dust
if love touched you never.

Debasish Mridha

#15. We need an opposition to remind us if we are making mistakes. When you are not opposed you think everything you do is right.

Mahathir Mohamad

#16. There are moments in our lives that define the people we will become in the future, like a symptom before an ailment, or the catalyst before the cure.

Brian Joyce

#17. The last thing I want to be is a rich black superstar. I just want to act.

James Earl Jones

#18. If a drug has anything going for it at all, it should be self-limiting. It should tell you when you've had enough.

George Carlin

#19. We grew up listening to alternative music from the '90s, and there was no shame in being on a major label and still making the music you wanted to make. I feel like rap rock came around and drew a line in the sand, and everybody that was like me ran away from that and started making indie-rock.

Nate Ruess

#20. It's funny how books can change you. You open up a book and one minute you are who you've always been, then you read some random passage and you become someone else.

Brian Joyce

#21. Society gets by from the help of its citizens.

Brian Joyce

#22. 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, so no matter what lines you put-country indie rock, rap, we're all somehow gonna find a way to come together.

Jay-Z

#23. Recently I danced in a video spoof of the song 'Gangnam Style,' and it was quickly banned across multiple Chinese online video platforms. But the story still traveled all over the world, carried in hundreds of international media reports.

Ai Weiwei

#24. I guess it was only fitting that to them PUNK was a four letter word. However, to people like Dylan and I-punk was our hearts-our souls. We grew up with a lot of uncertainties. To be a teenager isn't always pretty, and our music reflected that.

Brian Joyce

#25. Couples swayed and embraced to the beat as the singer's vocals soared above a group of confused teenagers and twenty-something's.

Brian Joyce

#26. What were we, but kids with apartments and jobs anyway?

Brian Joyce

#27. I started at an agency called Intertalent. You copy scripts, you pick up people's dry cleaning, you take their dogs to the vet, you deliver packages, you do whatever they want you to do.

Patrick Whitesell

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

Aziz Ansari

#29. I guess what's most important is that we chose to live with our hearts open and to let our experiences show us the way towards our brightest days.

Brian Joyce

#30. You know-portraits are odd things." "How do you figure?" I asked. "Well at the time, that portrait told the whole story. It told the truth. We were a family-a happy family. Now that same portrait just looks like a lie.

Brian Joyce

#31. The first forms of writing emerged not for art, literature, or love, not for spiritual or liturgical purposes, but for business - all literature could be said to originate from sales receipts (sorry).

Daniel J. Levitin

#32. We and others have done a bunch of work to show that if your real friends online say or do something, it affects you. But if your acquaintances online say or do something, it does not. People on average have about 106 Facebook friends, but only 5 or 6 real friends.

Nicholas A. Christakis

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

Prefuse 73

#34. In times such as these, life often begs us to seek answers when in reality there are only questions available.

Brian Joyce

#35. That night, he laid in his bed thinking about all the possibilities. They came like waves in his mind. At first they came slow, then gradually built up speed, cresting into full on dreams, until finally, they broke onto the shore with all of their reality. First dreams, then nightmares.

Brian Joyce

#36. 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

#37. I listen to a lot of indie or rock music.

Jennifer Damiano

#38. Eventually, that feeling fades, but there is always the memory of those days. When you're young, everything is butterflies. What I mean is - it's all new. I guess he was telling you to still believe, to hold on to your butterflies.

Brian Joyce

#39. Christopher was wearing a suit and adorned make-up. As long as I had known him, he never wore a suit or make-up. The look of him defenseless to his appearance saddened me.

Brian Joyce