Robert Englund Quotes

I think one of the most important things punk brought back was the whole concept of staying independent and doing things yourself. It made music a lot less boring in any category you can name.

I love movies like '500 Days of Summer' and 'Juno.' Something offbeat without the glamour and the makeup and the clothing.

We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.

The Goth character was a difficult thing to get my head round. I'm not really a fan of Goth music. I'm more a piano and guitar man - that's what I love.

I don't think DIY is something that necessarily comes to mind when people hear Third Eye Blind, but that is completely how we've been from the beginning.

I'm not going to say I'm not a fan, but I'm a fan of house music, essentially, and kind of indie, and I was always into the kind of sub-pop Seattle Mud Honey and Pearl Jam kind of sound. But my kind of big love was house music ever since I was 15/16, going to raves when I was 15 or 16 years old and not going to school, like a naughty boy.

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

I associate creativity with independent music.

I'm into heavy duty, psychedelic, foreign music. That's what I like listening to.

I listen to all kinds of music. I love underground, new music that's popping.

I love low-budget projects with great acting and great stories you can really get your teeth into.

I'm not making music for people who like Disney shows. I make music for people who like music.

That's what I love about our music - it'll never be a hit because you can't dance to it.

This music isn't Top 40, we really stand out from anyone.

I'm not so interested in being indie just for the sake of being indie.

I am interested in independent cinema and theatre, and they don't make news.

Most of the music I'm into wasn't popular when it was being made.

I like the word 'underground'... 'independent' carries a stigma of whininess. 'Underground' means a good time.

To begin with, the key principle of American indie rock wasn't a circumscribed musical style; it was the punk ethos of DIY, or do-it-yourself. The equation was simple: If punk was rebellious and DIY was rebellious, then doing it yourself was punk. 'Punk was about more than just starting a band,' former Minutemen bassist Mike Watt once said, 'it was about starting a label, it was about touring, it was about taking control. It was like songwriting; you just do it. You want a record, you pay the pressing plant. That's what it was all about.'

The independent films are really where I kind of come from and where I feel comfortable.

Generally speaking I would say I enjoy the smaller films more because there's a less sense of pressure and often the material is more unusual. But in "Iron Man" it was kind of like both worlds colliding because there was a lot of improvisation, not that we improv-ed in the scenes but to discover the actual scenes themselves.

If you play music with passion and love and honesty, then it will nourish your soul, heal your wounds and make your life worth living. Music is its own reward.

A true artist does not depend on radio for success. A true fan does not let radio determine what they support

The music throbbed in a voice of singular and delicate power; the air was resonant with melody, love and pain. The meanest Italian in the gallery far up beneath the ceiling, the most exalted of the land in the boxes and the stalls, leaned indulgently forward, to be swept by this sweet storm of song.

I think people who truly can live a life in music are telling the world, ‘You can have my love, you can have my smiles. Forget the bad parts, you don’t need them. Just take the music, the goodness, because it’s the very best, and it’s the part I give most willingly