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Quotes About Indie

'Daydream' brought us to the top of the heap of the indie-college market and recognition by all of our peers; 'Daydream' kind of capped off everything we set out to do when we started as a band, in terms of, like, wow, wouldn't it be great to make a record that a lot of people liked and listened to?
~ Lee Ranaldo
I think people are enticed by indie rap and every time you have a group going against the grain, they're gonna be like, 'Wow, you did it yourself in 2012, that's impressive - how did you do it? What're you doing that's different? And how can I be a part of it?'
~ Macklemore
The first wrestling event I ever went to was PCW Ultra in L.A., and it was insane. They had RVD wrestling, Shane Strickland, Penta, and all these incredible indie wrestlers.
~ Nita Strauss
Indie bookstores love writers as much as they love readers, and there is something about a community store, where you walk in, you feel known, and the delight in books is just infectious.
~ Caroline Leavitt
You gain and lose different things in different mediums or different sectors of different mediums. There are liberties you get on tiny indie films in terms of not having to be designed toward a marketing demographic.
~ Anna Paquin
There's a bunch of cities I'm not crazy about, but I love Chicago. I love the musical history - the mid-'90s indie rock scene, Chicago house music. It's a great town.
~ James Ransone
I'm not shy about trying to find what truth there is in any genre, whether that be an action piece, a sci-fi piece, a small indie film, or a play. I'm open to it all.
~ Mahershala Ali
I would love to be able to play some characters on television that are similar to some of the indie film roles I've done, that have been so close to my heart.
~ Courtney Ford
It's so funny because the roles that I've been offered in the indie film world have been similar to each other, and the roles that I've been offered in the TV world have been similar to each other, but the TV roles and the indie film roles have been completely different.
~ Courtney Ford
I have the most eclectic music taste out there. I can be listening to an indie pop song just as easily as I could be listening to a Carly Simon song from the '70s to a country song.
~ Jennifer Hyman
Pop artists work really hard, and they might not work for the same things that indie artists do, but they're still musicians, and they're still making art.
~ Mitski
The word 'indie' is meaningless now. It's so over-used that people think it simply means green hair.
~ Morrissey
We all like indie directors - heck, I even married one... but we're divorced now.
~ Rosie Perez
I'm indie through and through. I've always gone out with boys in bands.
~ Alexa Chung
The thing for me is that 'Thor' was an indie film that just had a few more zeros on the budget. At heart, it is just a simple story about a guy trying to get home to deal with someone who has broken into his house. It's just 'After Hours,' but set in space.
~ Taika Waititi
I play a lot of games. I love indie games.
~ David Cage
Don't expect me to be some indie schmindie embarrassed about my success.
~ Richard Ashcroft
They said I was a married mother of two but the record sounded like an indie album and they didn't know how to market it! This country is incredibly sexist, as is the music and media industry.
~ Siobhan Fahey
Sometimes I want to do something that's really funny and other times I read an indie script that is going to be made for nothing but I want to do it because I think that I can connect with something in the story.
~ Brittany Snow
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
It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies - character-driven stuff.
~ Tatiana Maslany
A lot of the music I listen to is indie rock. It's not on the radio.
~ Laura Bell Bundy
I listen to a lot of indie or rock music.
~ Jennifer Damiano
I really just wanted to work on adventure games, so Pinkerton Road is our own little indie studio that's focused on that.
~ Jane Jensen