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Quotes About Underground

I don't want to stay underground for just the cool people.
~ Buzz Osborne
At the end of the '90s and into 2000, electronic music was still an underground phenomenon, especially in America.
~ Tiesto
Fall 2013 was inspired by the 1970s equestrian lifestyle. I wanted to incorporate the moody and romantic - intricate baroque detailing and classic menswear elements - with something tougher and edgier in a nod to London's rock n' roll underground.
~ Rachel Zoe
Since I loved underground music, I tried to carve a space for feminism within it. Those were my hopes.
~ Kathleen Hanna
It doesn't really seem any different anywhere. I'd say it seems like we're biggest in Australia. It's just that we've always been this underground band and for some reason in the last month has been starting to go overground.
~ Jon Crosby
We're making this huge changeover from underground to more mainstream audiences. I don't know if we could ever repeat this type of feeling. We're really excited.
~ Jon Crosby
Of course, I started really being a comics fan with the underground stuff in the '70s.
~ Glenn Danzig
I don't know anybody who does what I do. I'm very underground.
~ Eric Bogosian
I'm very underground.
~ Eric Bogosian
Most of these experiments required the reduction of the cosmic ray muon flux in order to be successful, and the group necessarily became expert in the operation of deep underground laboratories.
~ Frederick Reines
Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground.
~ Diane Wakoski
As big as Metallica are, they're still not like a pop act. As big as they are, they're still not U2 or Lady Gaga. It's still underground.
~ Scott Ian
It doesn't get any more underground, conscious or indie than Macklemore, Ryan Lewis, but because they got a couple of really big pop hits, actually some of the biggest pop hits that hip-hop has ever seen, people are missing that part of their story. People are not counting that blessing.
~ Talib Kweli
I'd heard a lot of Motown and Stax when I was a kid, but the more well-known end of it. On Jam tours, we had a DJ called Ady Croasdell who ran a '60s club. He turned me on to underground stuff and what people call northern soul. It just blew my mind.
~ Paul Weller
The first thing I learned was the 'St Louis Blues' when I was eight. Both my grandmothers, my mother and uncle played the piano. This was post-war Britain, and they played boogie woogie and blues, which was the underground music of the time.
~ Jools Holland
I know Diplo knows a lot about underground music culture - he was one of the people to put me onto music like that when I used to listen to the Mad Decent Mixes. It was like, 'Oh, he knows what I want.'
~ Kreayshawn
My parents led this double life. They were in the underground movement to bring down the Nazis. My father was hanged for being a traitor.
~ Veruschka von Lehndorff
Actually, the only thing I regret is not making more underground films and bringing them with me as historical documents.
~ Bahman Ghobadi
Out of every 10 scripts I get sent, seven are fairly generic about an American guy who gets the girl and is involved in underground espionage activity.
~ Jim Sturgess
Open debate is our strongest tool in standing up to extremism. The far more dangerous avenue is to force extremist ideas underground, where they can fester without competition.
~ Jonas Gahr Store
I had originally done a production called 'The Resistance.' It was one of those underground guerilla things, very low budget. Then Starz and Ghost House ended up picking it up and funding it, and we reshot it.
~ Katrina Law
I listen to all kinds of music. I love underground, new music that's popping.
~ Juicy J
I have a fascination for extra-judicial societies and underground cultures, and in situations where justice can only be found outside the law, and how these societies have evolved over the centuries.
~ Ann Nocenti
We've always been kind of an underground band in a way that had the respect of our peers on the road. I like to say we're the world's most famous opening act because we've opened for every huge band on the planet.
~ Robin Zander