Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ed Westwick

I like the glamorous indie rock look, like The Libertines. But you know, without the heroin needle sticking out of my arm.

Aziz Ansari

I guess my music taste is pretty predictable: I like new indie rock stuff, older stuff.

Amy Lee

I really do listen to all types of music, not only rock, but everything from good pop music - which is usually older pop music - to RB and indie rock. I love indie rock more than a lot of the commercial stuff that you'd expect.

Andrew Bird

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.

Andrew Bird

I've always found that whatever you say about indie rock, it is the most inclusive genre or title for anything. It doesn't pin you down too much, like other labels would. It's just newer, it has less baggage.

Michael Azerrad

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.

Laura Bell Bundy

A lot of the music I listen to is indie rock. It's not on the radio.

Carrie Brownstein

Rock Band is more like Stairmaster than it is like rock 'n' roll - it's the same steps with different degrees of difficulty.

Art Alexakis

I loved hard-rock bands, and I loved songwriters who told stories.

Art Alexakis

A lot of people do not like singer-songwriters, and a lot of people who like them do not like hard rock. It's either-or.

Bertrand Russell

When we look at a rock what we are seeing is not the rock, but the effect of the rock upon us.

DJ Jazzy Jeff

As much as I am hip-hop, I'm soul. As much as I am soul, I'm a turntablist. As much as I'm a DJ, I love jazz and rock.

David Amram

The idea of the peace movement and of people who spent their entire lives trying to have a more egalitarian, just society, suddenly became swamped by the record industry, by the new rock and roll culture, and by the idea of not trusting anyone over thirty.

Dave Davies

Good rock music always tends to be around.

Dave Barry

By the eighties, a lot of radio stations had started playing "Sixties" music. They called it "Classic Rock," because they knew we'd be upset if they came right out and called it what it is, namely "middle-aged-person nostalgia music.

Carl Sagan

We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an obscure clod of rock.

Betsey Johnson

My customer isn't wrapped up in labels and money.

Phil Schiller

Sure, the labels and publishers get the rights for songs to be remade into a ringtone. So part of what we do is to work with those content owners to make sure that there are rights in place for every piece of content to be made into a ringtone.

David Greenwood

I can't put labels ? on these materials,

Alan Light

You don't need a major label and they sure don't need you.

Charles Stross

The trouble is, if you go too far towards being polite, the label that applies is "doormat".

Betty Wright

You gotta' sell a million records before you talk about getting paid at a major [label].

Denzel Washington

When you don't understand something, you label it and condemn it" (94) - Danny Glover, "The Fundamental Things

K'naan

I know that often times a lot of people who work in music, whether they be labels and so on or even artists, want personal recognition. We want to be recognized for something, for what we did. I'd rather my song be recognized for what it's doing and that's important. It's not so important how many people know me.

Jamie Redknapp

Sometimes, you just get a label and it sticks.