Quotes About Subculture

I like 'Paris is Burning' by Jennie Livington.

I mean there's certainly a lot of progressive rock and metal that exists at the underground level, which has its own vitality, as it should. But it seems to have lost its ability to really charge up the hill.

I feel that in the underground world, there's not enough vocals out there.

I got into punk at 17 after discovering an all-girl band from Long Island on the Internet called The Devotchkas - four crazy-looking girls with fast, driving basslines and high-pitched gang vocals who shared the same dress sense as the punks I used to eye up curiously in Camden.

I was a big Drum and Bass junkie when I grew up.

Bath was hardly known for its rock'n roll. We weren't part of the London scene or the New Romantics or any of that.

Goth culture, as mired in the past as it is, even it goes through changes, so Goth when I was growing up is not what it is now. When I think of Goth culture as it is at the moment I think of mall culture.

Garage music came up when people weren't paying attention.

Metal guys are huge nerds. A good percentage of them are either horror or sci-fi or comic book or fantasy nerds.

There's constantly this melancholy about British hip-hop. People are always waiting for it to explode like American hip-hop, but it might just be that British hip-hop will always be as it is: an underground thing which will stay that way.

There's all these little bubbles of nerddom.

I had a big time punk-rock phase and psychobilly phase. I used to go mad for the Guana Batz.

Around 1930, a small new phenomenon arose in Depression-ridden America, spawned out of the letter columns in science fiction magazines: fandom.

I saw the Sex Pistols, and they were terrible.

I feel like I just wanna go back to being more underground.

A lot of people don't know that before 'American Idol,' before I got this Jonas Brothers wardrobe going on, I grew up with skinheads and punks who fought for a cause and didn't care about skin color. I was the only little gay.

Halston was one of the hardest-working designers I have come across. The way he cut, moulded, manipulated and draped fabric was inspiring. I was submerged into the Halston subculture alongside Andy Warhol, Liza Minnelli, Elizabeth Taylor and Truman Capote. They shaped who I have become as a designer.

Most humans are unaware that amidst the Anne Rice devotees and the vampire wannabes, actual vampires use the Net.

Camp was something I'd never heard of until I started working with Susanne Bartsch - then I heard it all the time.

In Dogtown, skateboards are like bikes to the Chinese.

Los Angeles is a true postmodern city. Here, we celebrate with equal aplomb the high and the low. I am just as influenced by the punk rock attitude of local skate and surf cultures as I am by old-school glamour and stardust.

When I was 16, the pot weeded out the men from the boys, there were the heads and the straights. Now it's almost like money can weed it out, you know?

I was always embarrassed because my dad wore a suit and my mother wore flat pumps and a cozy jumper while my friends' parents were punks or hippies.

Every now and again, the alternative culture is cherished by the mainstream for what it is, rather than how it should be, like the mainstream popular music.