Alternative Music Quotes

• Yeah, I always listen to both classic and newer folk-influenced music. Singer-songwriter, alternative music. I also listen to more experimental dance music.

  Brad Delson

  Alternatives, Singers, Classic

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• Alternative music is no longer alternative once it’s in the mainstream.

  Kurt Cobain

  Alternatives, Mainstream, Music Is

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• I've always seen myself as the person listening to alternative music and all that - generic indie person. I always tried to be the least pretty I could be.

  Jenny Hval

  Listening, Alternatives, Generic

  "Jenny Hval's Soft Dick Rock". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. June 15, 2015.

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• When I hear the word independent I reach for my revolver. At this point, what the hell does that mean? The English Patient is an independent film... Hootie and the Blowfish are alternative music. I'm the Queen of Denmark. I don't know what it means anymore.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Queens, Mean, Independent

  "Like a Hurricane". Interview with Marjorie Baumgarten, www.austinchronicle.com. November 7, 1997.

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• I get a thrill meeting kids who are into alternative music.

  Kurt Cobain

  Kids, Alternatives, Thrill

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• The thing about me is, coming from an alternative music background and singing for nine years, being basically invisible, I'm so used to writing for myself - and at the end of the day, I do it because I feel like I have to. So when I'm recording or writing, I don't have other people in mind.

  Lana Del Rey

  Writing, Years, People

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I don't want to pooh-pooh modern pop. I appreciate that as well, but my personal favorite kind of music is guitar-based rock. I like grunge and garage bands and alternative music, but that's more my personal taste.

  Al Yankovic

  Rocks, Guitar, Appreciate

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• When alternative music - which is supposed to be the standard-bearer of where white rock is headed - becomes either too cute or too manufactured, that's just really not good.

  Billy Corgan

  Cute, Rocks, White

  Interview with Marc Hawthorne, www.avclub.com. June 30, 2005.

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• Thank you to BBC6 Music and Something Else for the opportunity to broadcast my corner of electronic and alternative music across the airwaves for the last 6 years. #‎ RIP6MIX

  Erol Alkan

  Opportunity, Years, Alternatives

  FaceBook post by Erol Alkan from Mar 17, 2015

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• When I was in seventh grade, I totally had a crush on a guy who was older than me, and he listened to alternative music. So he was into Days of the New and stuff like that, and more poppy stuff, too, like Matchbox Twenty.

  Carrie Underwood

  Crush, Guy, Twenties

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• I have periods where I listen to regular rap, Jay-Z, Eminem and Lil Wayne. The next day I might have some Christian alternative music. The next day I have on some dance music. It all varies what I listen to.

  Steve Blake

  Christian, Rap, Next Day

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