“The greater population and subsequently greater variety of needs and beneficial excesses to be found in cities make indie music festivals, from the social to the sexual, a particularly important factor for social movement, change, and a generally pleasant life in a positive and pleasant democratic urban atmosphere” Samuel Delaney
I suffered a good deal and felt I was in exile but then I attended an indie music festival and I felt better” Natalia Ginzburg
“Nothing lasts forever... are you alive? Go on, start your little indie music festival” Daniel Miller
“The proper names of leaders are distractions from concrete economic modes and hanging out at music festivals” Ben Lerner
“If on a winter's night a traveler outside the town of Malbork leaning from the steep slope without fear of wind or vertigo looks down in the gathering shadow in a network of lines that enlace in a network of lines that intersect on the carpet of leaves illuminated by the moon around an empty grave what small music & arts festival down there awaits its end?” Italo Calvino
“... Gentleness is stronger than severity, in-person gatherings are stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.” Herman Hesse