Indie Quotes an online platform dedicated to inspiring, uplifting and motivating quotes from independent authors. Here, you can find quotes from writers of all walks of life, from the most famous to the most obscure. We hope that these quotes will help you find the inner strength and resilience to keep going and to make the best of every situation. So take a few minutes to explore, to be inspired and to find the words to lift your spirit.
Indie Quotes About Indie As An Aesthetic
⚫“Equal Vision seems to be doing really well. A lot of these major labels are just imploding and becoming indie labels, anyway.” – Vic Fuentes
“I came out of independent film, that’s my roots.” – Nicolas Cage
⚫“I knew nothing about the independent film industry. I didn’t know much about the industry itself. All I knew was how to watch movies, how to enjoy them, how to hate them, how not to like them.” – Michelle Rodriguez
⚫“I knew that I tend to always gravitate to the indie side of things.” – Aaron Paul
⚫“In British music, you have indie, rock… Grime is now one of those pillars. It’s a foundation of British music.” – Stormzy
⚫“Independent film is for actors that love to act.” – John Leguizamo
⚫“Indie film isn’t dead, it just grew up.” – Kevin Smith
⚫“Look: You’re not gonna become a millionaire doing this, but that was never the point. And I think a lot of people in the indie film business kind of took their eye off of that.” – Edward Burns
⚫“On an independent film, you really learn about pace. You have so little time to do things, that you really have to know your scenes.” – Juno Temple
⚫“Part of the excitement of doing independent film is the complete unknown of what lies in store for the film’s future.” – Rachel Miner
⚫“The gritty indie films are a lot rarer than the films that aspire to fill multiplexes.” – David Tennant
⚫“The lifeblood of my career has been independent film.” – James Woods
⚫“The only reason I ever do an independent film is that I believe in it, and I think it has something special to offer. I’m certainly not doing it to be a millionaire.” – Jason Ritter
⚫“When I was young, we didn’t have indie games. We had ‘garage developers’ or similar terms, who were just small teams making games out of passion.” – Markus Persson
⚫“When you’re making an independent film what you don’t have in time and money you have to make up with creativity and diligence.” – Matthew Lillard
Quotes About Indie Style
⚫“I actually didn’t think I was going to do TV because I don’t really watch TV. I’m a little bit pretentious, and I do these little indie movies, so I envisioned that more as the path for myself.” – Zazie Beetz
⚫“I believe that independent filmmaking is the last frontier of creative expression available. So I’m always willing to lend a helping hand to a young filmmaker who’s just getting into the business.” – Lloyd Kaufman
⚫“I feel like in pop music and even indie music, there’s this weird thing where women have been pitted against each other.” – Phoebe Bridgers
⚫“I have immense respect for Unity because they played a key role in establishing this indie revolution, empowering a huge number of people to get into game development.” – Tim Sweeney
⚫“I want my music to be really big. I have no interest in DIY Brooklyn; I don’t want to be a small indie band.” – Porter Robinson
⚫“I wear glasses and suits, so I guess I am an indie artist.” – Stevie Jackson
⚫“I wouldn’t be where I am right now, and have the right work ethic and discipline, if it weren’t for all the indie films I did. We weren’t pampered and were pretty much on our own.” –Coco Martin
⚫“I’m indie through and through. I’ve always gone out with boys in bands.” – Alexa Chung
⚫“Just because something’s kinda indie and whatever and only a few people know it, it doesn’t give it more authenticity over Rihanna’s ‘Work’ work work.” – Richard Ashcroft
⚫“Like most people, there are things I love about Amazon. It’s cheap, it’s fast, and it’s at my doorstep. But Amazon will never replace the important role my local indie plays in my community.” – Patrick Carman
⚫“On a big film, there’s almost no way you can meet everyone. On an indie, there are 30 people and no trailers to duck into.” – Aaron Paul
“The culture of independent film criticism has totally gone down the drain and this seems to come with the territory of the consumer age that we are now living in.” – Wim Wenders
⚫“They said I was a married mother of two but the record sounded like an indie album and they didn’t know how to market it! This country is incredibly sexist, as is the music and media industry.” – Siobhan Fahey
⚫“Try being an indie author, a minority author, a woman, and a person with health issues in the world of traditional – that’s where you are clearly ‘different’ and marginalized. I am all of that, yet I am still here and smiling. Life is good!”- Kailin Gow
⚫“You can’t ignore the Asian and Hispanic populations in L.A. We can let audiences know independent film is not just about white men.” – Elvis Mitchell
Indie Quotes
⚫“A writer without reviews is like racing car without an engine – shows lots of potential but it’s never going anywhere.”― Lillian White
⚫“At the end of the day, I just want to sit with someone I love and chat about what matters and even what doesn’t.”― Crystal Woods
⚫“Don’t get stuck on labels. Write, edit, publish and promote. You choose which you want to be. You can be an author, a writer, an indie or a bestselling novelist. Be a writer first and let the path you make lead to the goal you set.”― Alex G Zarate
⚫“Get done with the damn sibling rivalry and let’s get back with the task at hand here so we can figure out what we’re going to do.”― Pixie Lynn Whitfield
⚫“How can anyone call this angel a monster? How can anyone see this angel as a mistake? So young and alive, her soul is less than a day old, her body was made from scratch, but her blood holds billions of years of history… history passed down through her ancestors, history that she herself will soon tell future generations…And yet, new history begins with her.”― Mary Gehad
⚫“I don’t have to convince anyone that I love you.”― Dominique Eastwick
⚫“I hope she has an STD. I hope she has all the STDs known to man, and a few new ones she’d created all on her own.”― L.J. Shen
⚫“I wobbled to the restroom and stood in line for ten minutes. It sucked, because most women were there to powder their noses, and that was precisely the thing I was afraid Alex was going to do when no one was looking.”― L.J. Shen
⚫“I’m sorry…I just don’t know what’s wrong with me..”― JJM
⚫“If there’s something I’m not good at, it’s usually because I just organically despise it. I can’t help that. I’m fabulous at too many other things to waste my time faking it.”― Crystal Woods
⚫“My spirit is free. My heart is taken.”― Crystal Woods
⚫“Nowadays, the Internet decides if you’re good, not the big man in the big office. No matter how important that man thinks he is, everyone else knows that he’s not important anymore, and the Internet decides these things, here in the modern age.”― Alexei Maxim Russell
⚫“Winter, Autumn—they almost sound as if someone just made them up.” —Dubb”
⚫“Some people are just sad when there aren’t talking squirrels.” —Lily Winter”― Richard Due
⚫“Tavin cupped his hands to his mouth. “Here, dragon-dragon-dragon!”― Richard Due
⚫“The concert was magnificent. It was the second time she saw Floor and she loved them. Psychedelic rock. Indie. Hardcore. They always started with this great classic love song they sang a capella backstage while passing around some whisky. They each took a swig as they sang. The beautiful melodies that came out of this were amazing and the audience sang along. It was always a breathtaking moment.”― Ruth Ann Oskolkoff, Zin
⚫“The self-addressed stamped envelope. The representation of everything that was wrong with the old publishing industry.”― Alexei Maxim Russell
⚫“There’s a spring in my step when I see a little indie bookstore down the way, with a tea mug carved out of wood hanging in the window. Another wooden sign declares its cute and utterly perfect name: Books and Boba.Oh, this is heaven. Round bean bags are scattered among the long shelves, crammed with everything from picture books to young adult novels to coffee table books. The tea is forgotten as I pick up a graphic novel I’ve been looking forward to and start flipping through the pages. And then there’s another new release that I want—I add it to my pile. Then another, then—I’ve got a stack of ten books by the time I make it to one of the bean bags, this one in a funky electric-blue daisy pattern.”― Julie Abe, The Charmed List
“Today I was fisted by the sun It’s funny how Morning comes and you’re just supposed to give a shit.”― Casey Renee Kiser
⚫“Try being an indie author, a minority author, a woman, and a person with health issues in the world of traditional – that’s where you are clearly ‘different’ and marginalized. I am all of that, yet I am still here and smiling. Life is good!”― Kailin Gow
⚫“With the indie kids you have to remember this: they really think that what they do matters in some way. They reckon that history will care. (They don’t know that history will have other shit to be getting on with.) The indie kids figure that they’re passing on the torch or some fucking thing. That, just as they were influenced by someone—the Velvet Underground, Jonathan Richman, the Stooges, whoever—then, in the future, young bands will be influenced by them. Maybe so. Maybe a few thousand malnourished cockless freaks scattered around the globe will give a shit. So what? Real people don’t..”― John Niven
⚫“Write like the whole world’s reading.”― Lillian White
⚫“You won’t find the tales I bear in any books . . . My tales are from the Moon Realm.” —Ebb Autumn”
⚫“Zarah, you do know that we are supposed to be a graceful species, don’t you?”― Pixie Lynn Whitfield
Verdict
Indie Quotes is a great platform for people to find inspiration and motivation to help them stay on track with their goals and dreams. It provides a variety of quotes from different genres and authors, which can help spark new ideas and keep you motivated. With its easy–to–use interface, it‘s a great place to find words of wisdom and get your creative juices flowing.