Joey Ramone Quotes

Indie rock is just as susceptible - if not more susceptible - to all the gross things about people becoming total ass clowns in music, and only worrying about money and image. I'm not interested in being a part of that.

It's not like I set out to be 'the indie guy.'

I enjoy independent music, even more than Bollywood.

I never identified with 'indie,' I don't like that word.

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.

I didn't grow up with indie rock - I mean, I listened to bands that are considered indie rock, but I think that term is dead and uninteresting.

I'm kind of proud of that little record! I mean I've heard about a million other records that have come out since then by all these groups around here and there and I really like 'Little Johnny Jewel'.

There are always young bands playing in their garages. A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of it is that you're not supposed to always know. It's subterranean.

I knew that I tend to always gravitate to the indie side of things.

I associate creativity with independent music.

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

You don't hear it on the radio. There's something about the voices in Sleater-Kinney that's a little too challenging to ever be on the inside.

I preferred rock when it was in the dark, when it was a secret between me and the audience, when it wasn't mainstream.

We went into that knowing that we were never going to sell a major record 'cause we didn't sound like these bands, so I just thought this was an opportunity for us to make the kind of records that we wanted and make some money at the same time.

I'm definitely a cult artist.

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

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

I see a lot of connections between folk and punk music just because they're both subcorporate music - I mean, traditionally.

Fans want real songs, they want real experiences, and they want real instruments.

Mixtapes have always been a guerrilla-style means of moving music.

With Sleater-Kinney, we have a lot of earnest fans, and we were an earnest band.

All the music I listened to in high school that I loved and that moved me wasn't the same music other kids were listening to in school. I got into punk rock and new wave, then dub and hip-hop.

I know it sounds weird, but the kind of music I write isn't the kind of music that I listen to, which is quite underground, left-of-centre stuff like PJ Harvey and Tom Waits.

For all its reverb and defiant noise, the sound of Black Tambourine barely reached past the borders of Washington, D.C., in the early '90s.

My music isn't mainstream music.