Quotes About Subculture

I listened a little to punk when I was younger, but it was straight edge punk. It was nothing like what is going on now, like poppy punk.

The subculture of felons is in great vogue among adolescents. Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, and so forth allow us Republicans to say to America's young people, 'We be thugs.' The GOP may capture the youth vote at last.

For me, Gothic is something from my youth, when I had a heavy metal phase.

hackerese pejorative.

I like 'My So-Called Life' and the 'Riot Grrl Movement' and 'Freaks and Geeks.'

Nonetheless, the gamers had taken up with gusto the challenge laid down by software manufacturers, and before long a significant subculture of cracker groups had flowered. Its members' sole aim was to crack games and other software the minute they came onto the market and then parade their cracking skills to their peers. The cyber underworld was born, although it would quickly start fracturing into very different communities – some good, some bad.

When I was in high school, I listened to a lot of death metal bands.

Metal never goes away. It drifts in and out, but the true fans are always there for it.

There is nothing more, I guess, cannibalistic than the metal or the hard rock scene, it seems.

I think there's a lot of death metal or doom metal dudes that somehow or another find a groove in it.

I got into beards right in the middle of the hipster boom.

I was really into emo and scene culture in middle school.

The burgeoning of the American welfare state in the second half of the twentieth century and the declining effectiveness of the American criminal justice system at the same time allowed borrowed and counterproductive cultural traits to continue and flourish among those blacks who had not yet moved beyond that culture, thereby prolonging the life of a chaotic, counterproductive, dangerous, and self-destructive subculture in many urban ghettos.

She hangs around with this emo kid who fancies himself a poet or some shit.

This girl. This little high school kid with her stupid boots and her Addams Family wardrobe and her skin as white and floury-looking as unbaked bread. Pillsbury goth girl, just out of the can.

It's funny that all these goths paint their faces with such white make-up and that is the actual colour of my skin, I am that pale!

I don't want to stay underground for just the cool people.

For a lot of people, 4chan is their tree house - they go there to hang out. You can actually see the culture shift with time zone. Seeing how threads unwind and unravel is just a thrill, and you can't really share that magic.

What's a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority.

I'm a pretty early adopter of social media. There's a whole subculture to it. I'm smart enough not to tweet things out of emotion.

Leave it up to hipster nerds to pretend to hate something that they actually want

In any culture, subculture, or family in which belief is valued above thought, and self-surrender is valued above self-expression, and conformity is valued above integrity, those who preserve their self-esteem are likely to be heroic exceptions.

There isn't a lot written about the motorcycle culture.

The Plastic People of the Universe played 'Venus in Furs' from Velvet Underground, and I knew everything was basically okay.