Indie Quotes
Indie Quote of the day
The second 'Postal Service' album is threatening to become the 'Chinese Democracy' of indie rock. It will come out eventually, or maybe it won't.
Generally I try to read anything but indie rock journalism or anything about music at all, especially in the summer.
You kind of have to be like " What have you been working the last five years for? Why are you complaining?" It's essentially me talking myself out of being a crybaby indie rock butthead.
I really feel like indie films are where I learn to be a better actor, especially because they always give you a bit more freedom to collaborate.
I always feel I could be like Toni Collette, going between big studio things and indie films. That would be feasible.
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.
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.
In the '90s, indie movies could get financing, because financers gave money straight to directors... Now it's a different system. Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system.
When I was a kid, you listened to a certain genre. Now it's like, "I love indie rock, I love hip-hop, jazz, funk." Also, we knew it couldn't be the same thing each year.
I was never really a child actor. I was working sporadically in indie films in Pennsylvania, but I was still living at home.
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.
You really think all of those indie music dorks go to SXSW every year to check out music? They go there to wear their laminates and act important and try to get laid.
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.
I'm real critical of myself. I think a lot of what I've done is boring indie rock. I didn't intend it to be that way, but somehow milk gets added to everything.
I do get the sense sometimes that if I draw things too nice, maybe I won't be indie-rock enough anymore.
Ah, reality TV: where opportunists delight in exposing opportunism! It's kind of like the indie music scene.
What's cool about indie rock is that one band can do effectively the same thing as another band, and one band nails it, and the other one doesn't. I like that elusiveness.
It's really a great luxury to have, to be able to go from big films to indie films, too. Because I'm on the job learning as an actor, and independent films is where I'm learning to act.
I've always done indie films, but things started picking up more for, for a lack of a better word, more professional things.
In indie rock, there's the phenomenon of: "Oh, this guy seems totally normal, but he's actually crazy." There's more of that out there than you'd think.
Books are great for if you want to work on the craft of writing for yourself, or, you know, to write novels or indie films, stuff like that.
I think indie films are really important, because they show the studios and the audiences when they see them, great stories. Really interesting, small stories.
You don't always just have to do an indie movie to feel like you're controlling it with a few people that you really have connected with, creatively. You can do it on a bigger scale.
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.
I'm so disconnected from an indie-rock community that I am the hermit people used to guess I was.
Hip-hop is mostly what I listen to, other than jazz. I've given up on pop music and indie rock.
The only music I was listening to for ages was old soul. So I wasn't listening to a lot of new music - especially indie music.
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.
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.
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.
Couples swayed and embraced to the beat as the singer's vocals soared above a group of confused teenagers and twenty-something's.
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.
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.
In times such as these, life often begs us to seek answers when in reality there are only questions available.
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.
Why do I love writing YA? Because I get a chance to re-live my youth knowing all I know now...
All our good and bad memories—they were like our B-side diaries. They were like those songs on old dusty punk albums that no one listened to anymore.
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.
Our books are the deepest glimpses into our souls, the most raw and real anybody will ever find us.
You have to hold on and be patient. Pain lasts for a while, but you must leave room for happiness when you find it.
I beg your pardon. Sometimes, it's true I can be stubborn.' 'Sometimes?' she added derisively. 'Quite often, ' he tempered.
