Indie Music Quotes

• I'm into indie music. I think indie is going to bring back the spirit in music. There was a time when it was all about accommodating the music business, the music was getting tasteless, but the spirit is back.

  Yoko Ono

  Thinking, Spirit, Music Business

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. February 12, 2007.

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• Indie music is 'it' now. It's kind of a revolution to the music: 1980s, 1990s music was getting very sanitized; they were complying with the music industry. Music was getting more and more dead in a way. Now, because of the social climate that's very severe, the artists are compelled to start being real. It's really great that indie music is now.

  Yoko Ono

  Real, Artist, Climate

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• 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.

  Mark Kozelek

  Thinking, Years, Important

  Interview with Laura Snapes, pitchfork.com. May 23, 2012.

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• I think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty.

  Alex Kapranos

  Thinking, World, Modesty

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Ah, reality TV: where opportunists delight in exposing opportunism! It's kind of like the indie music scene.

  Diablo Cody

  Reality, Delight, Tvs

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• I'm not talking about what came later [after the American underground punk scene], indie music, or whatever you want to call it, but the music that came before that - that's an important story. So many interviews with musicians get the time or context wrong. You have these older bands, usually men, who tell stories about "Oh, we got into this huge fight, this guy punched that guy," that's the wrong sort of story. My view of the time is truly pioneering.

  Ian MacKaye

  Fighting, Men, Talking

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• Im really into the indie-music scene and listen to a lot of De La Soul.

  J. R. Celski

  Soul, Scene

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• 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.

  Florence Welch

  Soul, Listening, Age

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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