Quotes About Mainstream

Netflix has always had this interesting ability to get non-mainstream content to be watched by the mainstream.

I put out my first song, 'The Other,' in 2015 just on Soundcloud. It was always my most popular song but never really went far in a mainstream way. Then, a couple years after it came out, I watched it go from 8 million to, like, 100 million.

'Parks and Rec' is definitely a mainstream show - the group that watches it on TV on Thursday night is small, but the audience that watches it on things like Hulu, Netflix, and Tivo is enormous.

It's such a more mainstream demographic that watches 'Total Divas.'

There's a watering down of sensibilities in commercial films and I don't seem to fit into that.

Absolute 80's is three hours of mainstream 80's music. I also do New Wave Nation that is more cutting edge. It is more punk stuff from the 70's to the 90's.

I feel like, as musicians, we need to fight the Spotify thing. I feel that in some ways what's happening in the mainstream is the last gasp of the old industry. Once that does finally die, which it will, something else will happen.

When I was working upon the ABC books, I wanted to show different ways that mainstream comics could viably have gone, that they didn't have to follow 'Watchmen' and the other 1980s books down this relentlessly dark route. It was never my intention to start a trend for darkness. I'm not a particularly dark individual.

Bitcoin as a globally distributed public ledger - that's the thing I'm most excited about going forward. Thinking about how to use Bitcoin in new and innovative ways. In the meantime, we have the boring uses of Bitcoin that are in the process of going mainstream.

I'm a character actor, and I made a choice when I was young, after 'Mystic Pizza', not to go for the mainstream stuff, and to do a more eclectic kind of route.

I went to Northwestern in Chicago, in Evanston, and then I ended up trickling down in Chicago theater. I did a bunch of plays, but I was non-equity. For a lot of people, non-equity means you're not yet professional. But for me, if you're in a mainstream theater, you're doing something real.

Poetry itself hasn't been well served by poets who fled to the margins.

In the '90s, the radio was still alive with all different kinds of points of view, and I think that's why people are longing for that time. It was the first time that alternative music broke through to the mainstream.

It's funny how comedy is, you look at people like French and Saunders, when they started out they were very alternative. A lot of those alternative comedians have ended up being mainstream, they know that longevity is about being mainstream.

Comic books have gone mainstream. The audience is there.

I enjoy music that is commercial.

Well, the stuff that has become more commercial doesn't have any edge.

I have a very commercial appetite. I don't like to do high-brow things.

I started out mainstream and then literally made a conscious decision, like, 'I don't have that core black audience on my side.' And then I literally started looking for projects to get involved in.

It's okay to do a small role in mainstream cinema like 'Aurangzeb' or 'Yaariyan.' But it's films like Rituparno Ghosh's 'Memories Of March' and Avinash Kumar Singh's 'Listen Amaya' that sustain me as an actress.

Mainstream Mumbai movies are my bread and butter, but films like 'Brick Lane' and 'Road, Movie' provide sustenance to my creative soul.

Everybody in Sweden knows MMA now. It's mainstream.

It is a fairly open secret that almost all systems can be hacked, somehow. It is a less spoken of secret that such hacking has actually gone quite mainstream.

The creative individual is no longer viewed as an iconoclast. He—or she—is the new mainstream.