Indie Band Quotes

We're not really an underground band anymore, and we're not a mainstream band, either.

Lilith Fair was a great experience for us the first time we played it. We were... not a new band, but a new band as far as mainstream kind of airplay or success.

The band Grizzly Bear, I think they're excellent. There's a beauty and a musicality there that I wish would have been in vogue in the late '80s, when I was forming bands.

'Summer Babe' is the start of Pavement front-loading their albums with the catchiest song first.

We were never the trendiest band, but we've always been here.

Arcade Fire has kept their indie cred. They will sell out stadiums yet still have underdog status. But when you're a band like Coldplay, people are waiting to knock you down.

I love Unknown Mortal Orchestra, who are from New Zealand, living in Portland.

I remember the first album I really completely geeked out over was The Shins' 'Wincing The Night Away.' That album was everything to me.

We're not the corporation of Foster the People. We're a band.

When I got my record deal at Atlantic, at the time, 'indie' wasn't a style of music: it was a kind of label. And I think, eventually, the bands that ended up on those labels began to be branded as 'indie bands,' and then it became a genre.

When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been in that band - or at least in a Pixies cover band.

I really like Au Revoir Simone.

When we started out in the U.K., there were songs that we made, we put them on the Internet, and we immediately started touring the U.K. We borrowed our friend's mum's car, and drove ourselves around for, like, a year playing gigs in pubs and tiny little venues. In that respect, we're pretty grass roots as a band. We've done all that together.

I like The Smiths - I would love to do a song with The Smiths, because they are so sonically different.

I was borderline deluded to think something as outrageous as Semi Precious Weapons could have been mainstream.

When we first started, we were a band from Athens and that was so off the map.

I love Modest Mouse.

Go out and support your local rock n' roll band.

I'm a real fan of that Foster the People song 'Pumped Up Kicks.'

I really love that 'I Can Feel the Heart Beating as One' Yo La Tengo record a lot.

I was a fan of Belle and Sebastian. I didn't really know a lot of their music - I only knew the kind of bigger songs because I had a friend, when I was younger, who was really into them. But I have always really respected Belle and Sebastian for what they are, what they do. Yeah, they're just great.

I've been listening to a new band called Wolf Alice, courtesy of my son. The vocalist, Ellie Rowsell, has a gorgeous voice.

My favorite band at the moment is the Dresden Dolls, they're from Boston. It's a guy and a girl. She plays piano and he plays the drums and she also sings. You can find them on the web they're incredible.

A friend of mine introduced me to Thurston Moore because she thought I would like him. He was playing with the tallest band in the world, the Coachmen. They were sort of like Talking Heads, jangly guitar, Feelies guitar. Anyway, it was love at first sight. His band broke up that night. And we started playing.

Thenewno2 is sort of my little prototype band, really.