Top 1200 Indie Music Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Slamdance actually is indie and rebellious. Sundance obviously felt threatened.

Being an indie artist, you have to fight for position against a major.

That's my advice for indie filmmakers: Marry a supermodel.

As a successful artist it is my job to give the indie scene as much of a push as I can.

I wear glasses and suits, so I guess I am an indie artist.

You are at the mercies of the dailies. With an indie you don't have that.

We all like indie directors - heck, I even married one... but we're divorced now.

I never identified with 'indie,' I don't like that word.

Just because I run an indie label doesn't mean I don't think Jay-Z is nice.

To go indie is a thing. But to put an album in the stores, you need a distribution label.

NME is normally associated with indie rock. It ain't something I read as a kid.

I'm the anti indie-rocker. My stuff isn't ironic.

To jump from the indie ranks to play with the big dogs, there's a gate you have to pass through.

I kind of grew up in the indie world, and now that sort of writing and material is on television.

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.

Indie film isn’t dead. It just grew up.

I've never cared about being indie or cool. I wanted to be on 'Top of the Pops.'

You want every film that you make to do well, not just indie films in general.

On a big film, there's almost no way you can meet everyone. On an indie, there are 30 people and no trailers to duck into.

You wouldn't expect a Christian character to be an Indie rocker guy.

I've written a soulful record but it's informed by my sort of indie guitar past.

I guess you can look at Fleetwood Mac as the 'Pirates Of The Caribbean' movies and my solo career as indie films.

It's not like I set out to be 'the indie guy.'

When I was doing indie films, it wasn't cool and hip.

I'd like to be in a tiny indie where I'm lost at sea.

I've always been indie.

I would love to do an indie film, as I've grown to have a more serious side.

My job is to act, whether in indie or mainstream films.

Indie film isn't dead, it just grew up.

No one goes to BrooklynVegan to read about content, they just go for drama. It's a tabloid, the scum of indie.

G.O.O.D. Music is on top because G.O.O.D. Music is the culture. When you think of, you know, just every aspect from music, influence, fashion, art level. If it's not G.O.O.D Music, then it's somebody who was influenced heavily by G.O.O.D. Music.

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

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

I knew that I tend to always gravitate to the indie side of things.

I do indie films for the sense of fulfillment and to achieve my goals as an artist.

Music means communication to me. I say 'listen you people out there, listen to my music, let's be one.' Music is a friend to me when I am lonely, when I am blue. You can't define music 'cause music is cosmos and it knows no barrier or definition. You have to feel music to dig it.

In case you don't know this, we're not in the '90s anymore. Indie cinema does not reign.

Don't expect me to be some indie schmindie embarrassed about my success.

I don't know why people have to categorize things in music under music. It's music and it's music and it's music. When you start putting genres on things, I think it's completely ridiculous, and I hate that.

All you needed was a couple of instruments and a few chords and you could be on an indie label.

I think there was a real lane built for indie bands during the time when Chairlift came up.

I do not differentiate between a commercial and an indie project as long as there is a strong subject and the character in the script is relatable.

My influences are jazz, blues, European classical music; they are rock music and pop music. So many kinds of music. World music from different countries like India and China. I think that would be a shame not to take advantage and do something... not unique, because I don't have this pretension.

When I first saw Destiny's Child, I was in the fifth grade, and it made me want to sing and make music and there would be these freestyles on the radio for what seemed like hours, it was just so cool to me. So all of these influences and these styles started to blend together. Eventually, that evolved into me finding the indie scene in Houston. When I was 19, I joined a rock band, and that's when I began to say, "Okay, this is something that I could take seriously."

You have a history of art-music that you equate with music. That's what I love about that term art-music. It separates itself from music-music, the music people have always made.

I do like to have a clean slate, especially when you're in indie film.

An excellent indie horror book with a wholly original premise.

My indie work is mostly reality-based, focused on real life and characters.

When I was growing up, music was music and there were no genres. We didn't look at it as country music. Popular music in Tuskegee was country music. So I didn't know it in categories. It was the radio.

It's a lot of work being an indie artist, but it's worth it.

To me music is music. A person of faith, a person that calls themselves a Christian, they are the Christian and they make music. Some music has more to do about God than other music, but in reality what makes the difference between "secular" and "Christian" music is simply a marketing channel.

I'm used to doing U.K. indie films, like, six weeks of filming, tops.

I love indie movies - I feel they can really allow you to develop a character.

Whether I'm on a major or an indie, I don't think this is important, but at the same time I do.

The indie movie world is like a bad Tinder date, and there are always strings attached.

As more people get into indie bands and alternative music, they're also getting more into other genres that fit those categories, like jazz and classical. It's becoming more rebellious to go to a classical concert. You're getting the younger art house crowd and regular students as well as those who are just curious.

My music is music that Christians and Catholics can listen to. Muslims. Buddhists. And non-religious people as well. It's just music. You can look at the music in several different ways. It's music for everybody.

I was first an indie actor, so I also want that more opportunities be given to people in the indies.

I do sort of gravitate towards smaller, indie-type movies.

Music has been so healing in my life, so the fact that my music could be that for someone else is the best gift of my whole career. People have told me that they got married to my music, divorced to my music, and played my music while they were having their baby.