Indie Rock Quotes - Page 2

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

  Prefuse 73

  Rocks, Connecting

  "Prefuse 73". Interview with Pitchfork, pitchfork.com. February 20, 2005.

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• Licensing is how indie rock people make a living these days, so whatever about that. But I want good films and good placement for the songs because I want to be exclusive. I don't want to just sign it away because I don't want songs to lose meaning, but I'm also...I don't care [that] Wilco sold songs to Volkswagen. That's great. They probably drive Volkswagens.

  Justin Vernon

  Song, Rocks, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Even the indie rock world - which is supposed to be about truth and independence from corporate mindfulness or something - is totally subject to the paraphernalia of celebrity.

  Justin Vernon

  Rocks, Independence, Mindfulness

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• 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

  Hipster, Teenager, Eye

  John Summers, Chris Lehmann, Thomas Frank (2014). “No Future for You: Salvos from the Baffler”, p.113, MIT Press

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• I have a car in Nebraska. When I bought it, they gave me a satellite radio, and there's an 'indie-rock' station. It's just nothing I'm interested in.

  Conor Oberst

  Rocks, Car, Nebraska

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• 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

  Rocks, Generations, Culture

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• One of the best moments of any Liars show is hearing the crowd squawk 'We're doomed! We're doomed!' on cue during 'We Fenced Other Houses with the Bones of Our Own.' Maybe not the most uplifting audience sing-along in the indie rock world, but one of the most reliably entertaining.

  Rob Sheffield

  Uplifting, Liars, Rocks

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• The idea of having an indie rock "career" while living in a remote backwater like Seattle was too ridiculous to contemplate. It was simply about having adventures, one day at a time, one song at a time.

  Bruce Pavitt

  Song, Adventure, Rocks

  "Experiencing Nirvana". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. February 12, 2014.

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• There was no indie rock band in the 90s at the level of, like, Grizzly Bear. I listen to their records and it's crazy how good they sound. That really freaks me out.

  Travis Morrison

  Crazy, Rocks, Sound

  "The Dismemberment Plan". Interview with Lindsay Zoladz, pitchfork.com. June 27, 2013.

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• If I like hardcore straight-edge punk music, gentle psychedelic folk music, gangster rap, indie-rock with a lot of guitar pedals, and I find inspiration from all these things in different songs of mine, shouldn't I be allowed to make any of this kind of music that I want? And it's the same for the comic books, why should I only make autobiographical stories? Or only political stories? Or only superhero stories? Or only comedy stories? I am a bit creatively desperate, when I sit with a pen and paper I am desperate for ANY idea that makes me excited, I don't care what kind of idea it is!

  Jeffrey Lewis

  Song, Inspiration, Rap

  Source: therumpus.net

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

  Jess Row

  Rocks, Hip Hop, Hips

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm like the Fugitive, running from the one-armed indie-rock community!

  Billy Corgan

  Running, Rocks, Community

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• I'm so disconnected from an indie-rock community that I am the hermit people used to guess I was.

  John Darnielle

  Rocks, People, Community

  Interview with Daniel Handler, believermag.com. July 1, 2004.

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