Quotes About Subculture

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.

I'd never seen so many Goths in one place. All dark clothes and brooding faces, like a gathering of small thunderclouds.

The only thing surfers have in common with the rest of America is they're unemployed and they love crystal meth.

I'm continuing to do research into biker culture.

Initially, electronic music was anti-establishment, as punk rock and rock n' roll were. The music was shut down; the police were against the parties.

You can't be a mod and a rocker. You have to choose sides.

The word 'indie' is meaningless now. It's so over-used that people think it simply means green hair.

My father suggested in an early draft that the hipster "became a criminal because he was not allowed to become a citizen.

The alternative scene, for a couple years now, has been taken seriously and that's a cool thing. I don't think it's exploded or anything, but I think it's pretty cool that it still exists, it's still affecting people.

Rock music is niche.

They tried to look punk but came off looking more like cats with mange. Just

They all dressed like crack addicts. A boy wore a white leather belt as a tie.

I got beat up by the comic-book kids when I was younger! They were cooler than me. Talk about levels of geekdom, I was a couple rungs below the kids who read comic books. Yeah. Not so cool, man.

No, I'm not a comic book guy. I'm pretty fascinated with the subculture though and I do think that the world of comic books is such a natural transition into film.

These gang types were hilarious to me with their secret handshakes and bullshit nickel-and-dime schemes.

punk rock as an alternative," he says, "a real attempt to change the social order of the world.

We" was a sprawling cooperative of fanzines, underground and college radio stations, local cable access shows, mom-and-pop record stores, independent distributors and record labels, tip sheets, nightclubs and alternative venues, booking agents, bands, and fans that had been thriving for more than a decade before the mainstream took notice.

Flipside, Maximumrocknroll, and Forced Exposure—but there were literally hundreds of smaller zines that collectively framed the indie aesthetic.

Punk in small towns in '88, '89 was just too dangerous to the normal way of doing things," Lunsford explains. "We found out how many walls there were in this free society that were blocking self-entertainment.

Hardcore's organizational energy was just as important as its musical energy—

Everybody likes the idea that there's this burgeoning, happening scene somewhere in the world.

For a while, there effectively was no underground. "I thought that was the end of what you might call punk rock," says Peter Prescott, "because punk rock is unique and individual and is not for everybody. So almost by definition it can't be popular.

A lot of people get into alternative music as part of their identity. It's something that isn't the mainstream, that their brothers and sisters don't know about, and that their parents don't like. It's something they can have as their own.

I love the fact that there is now a skate park in almost every city, but it will always have a rebellious/underground edge to it because it is based on individuality.