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Quotes About Subculture

'TableTop' is packed with gaming celebrities and independent game creators. This is a huge subculture that really doesn't have a vehicle to rally around or educate people with.
~ Felicia Day
I think there are rock stars within every subgenre, and for people who are obsessed with musical theater Sutton Foster and Audra MacDonald are like Beyonce to them. I'm sure the a cappella world has their own version of that, and that exists in every geeky subculture.
~ Anna Kendrick
Madeline began hearing people saying Derrida. She heard them saying Lyotard and Foucault and Deleuze and Baudrillard. That most of these people were those she instinctually disapproved of- upper-middle-class kids who wore Doc Martens and anarchist symbols- made Madeline dubious about the value of their enthusiasm.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture.
~ Michael Lewis
To be involved in the subculture of punk rock puts you in a minority.
~ Cedric Bixler-Zavala
I've been riding motorcycles since my early 20s, and I loved the hipness of the subculture.
~ Kurt Sutter
I think people do sci-fi a huge disservice by lumping it as some sort of bizarre subculture genre when I think everybody's lives are impacted by sci-fi at some point.
~ Mark Sheppard
A segregated spiritual subculture does women no good, even if it does have adorable butterflies in the logo.
~ Frederica Mathewes-Green
Artists are creating their own genre sound, and other artists are building upon that sound and already creating a huge subculture created around one particular sound created by one artist. So, with all that happening, the genres are going to break down, and there's going to be a multitude of sound coming out.
~ Steve Aoki
Generally speaking, by the time a subculture such as steampunk secures the attention of major media, resulting in extensive coverage of the craze, said phenomenon is already on the way out.
~ Paul Di Filippo
I would only create clothes myself if I felt I could do something really different - create a new style subculture for my generation - and that is very ambitious.
~ G-Dragon
My personal experience has been that in my free bohemian subculture, I'm not unique.
~ Robert Christgau
I went through different looks. At one period, I was preppy because that's how I grew up. But then I had bleached hair in the front. And I used to wear - then I wanted to be a beatnik. It was hard to be a beatnik in suburban Baltimore. But I wanted to be one.
~ John Waters
The corners now constitute a world apart, a rock-hard subculture formed in the crucible of lost America.
~ David Simon
I was a massive Sid Vicious fanatic.
~ Hank Williams III
Me and my friends had BMX magazines and skate magazines, and I was a photographer who made skate videos.
~ Spike Jonze
From a person whose living depends on other people buying her creative work, this may sound odd, but one of my favorite things about the steampunk subculture is its do-it-yourself attitude.
~ Kaja Foglio
It has taken me years to distill the Gospel out of the subculture in which I first encountered it. Sadly, many of my friends gave up on the effort, never getting to Jesus because the pettiness of the church blocked the way.
~ Philip Yancey
As if her language is not enough indication, there is also the matter of her Hot Topic mallrat outfit: short black leather skirt with buckles up the side, mass-produced "vintage" Ramones T-shirt, and piss-yellow leggings with some horrible pair of pink patent-leather shoes.
~ Rachel Cohn
We didn't have a positive song until we wrote 'Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue!
~ Dee Dee Ramone
I started buying vinyl records when I got into punk music because, in the punk scene in New Jersey, vinyl was more like a necessity than a luxury.
~ Jack Antonoff
The time for invisible boundaries that guard the 'purity' of gaming as a niche subculture is over. The violent macho power fantasy will no longer define what gaming is all about.
~ Anita Sarkeesian
When the punk thing came along and I heard my friends saying, I hate these people with the pins in their ears. I said, Thank God, something got their attention.
~ Neil Young
My grammar be's ebonics, gin tonics, and chronic.
~ Nelly