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Quotes About Underground

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.
~ Billy Corgan
My whole goal in this industry nowadays is to keep doing the underground stuff, but to be able to add vocals that are sexy and underground.
~ Erick Morillo
I feel that in the underground world, there's not enough vocals out there.
~ Erick Morillo
I love having a basement.
~ Alice Ripley
There is nothing Tourettic about the New York City subways.
~ Jonathan Lethem
Being on the run wasn't fun, but it was something I had to do. I was actually working in legitimate jobs. I wasn't living on people's credit cards. I was living like a character out of a movie. It was performance art.
~ Kevin Mitnick
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.
~ Zadie Smith
I know it sounds weird, but the kind of music I write isn't the kind of music that I listen to, which is quite underground, left-of-centre stuff like PJ Harvey and Tom Waits.
~ KT Tunstall
Uscì quindi dalla casa del fuoco e si diresse per la strada notturna - era mezzanotte - verso la ferrovia sotterranea, dove il silenzioso convoglio ad aria compressa, scivolando come un'ombra dentro il suo budello bene oleato nelle viscere della terra, lo rigurgitò con uno sbuffo possente d'aria calda, sulla scala mobile dal pavimento color crema, che saliva verso la superficie, nella zona suburbana.
~ Ray Bradbury
And between us now there is this continual underground struggle over something trivial and nebulous that won't abate and has lasted nearly as long as the two of us have known each other. I love you.
~ Joseph Heller
Komisch warm daß inmitten eines Wirklichkeit gewordenen Alptraums, in einem unterirdischen Schloß ohne Ausgang mir schon der Anblick von lesbarer Schrift ein Gefühl von Geborgenheit geben konnte. Deshalb mußte ich lachen, oh meine Freunde, schallend und anhaltend.
~ Walter Moers
never trust a Troglotroll
~ Walter Moers
If you destroy a free market, you create a black market.
~ James C. Humes
basement to the coalbin exit
~ James Grady
According to the legends," he said, "the Magratheans lived most of their lives underground." "Why's that?" said Arthur. "Did the surface become too polluted or overpopulated?" "No, I don't think so," said Zaphod. "I think they just didn't like it very much.
~ Douglas Adams
According to the legends," he said, "the Magratheans lived most of their lives underground.
~ Douglas Adams
The Mole People, by Jennifer Toth (Chicago Review Press, 1993).
~ Douglas Preston
High cognitive friction polarizes people into two groups. It either makes them feel frustrated and stupid for failing, or giddy with power at overcoming the extreme difficulty. These powerful emotions force people into being either an "apologist" or a "survivor." They either adopt cognitive friction as a lifestyle, or they go underground and accept it as a necessary evil. The polarization is growing acute.
~ Alan Cooper
Archie was getting seriously tired of being underground all the time.
~ Alan Gratz
I feel like I just wanna go back to being more underground.
~ Future
I don't want be an underground DJ - don't get me wrong - I just wanna share my music with everybody.
~ Hardwell
Other humans gaze at the sky, but I say unto you, the only way through the world is to pass through the underground.
~ Rawi Hage
There are always young bands playing in their garages. A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of it is that you're not supposed to always know. It's subterranean.
~ Billie Joe Armstrong
A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of it is that you're not supposed to always know. It's subterranean.
~ Billie Joe Armstrong