Mainstream Quotes

Lawyers are like beavers: They get in the mainstream and damn it up.

Celtic music will always be around, even if with the mainstream crowds it dies out.

I prefer to be subcultural rather than mass-cultural. I'm not interested in hitting the vein of the mainstream.

Gooseberries should be mainstream berries! Why are chemically fattened strawberries a thing? Why not the delicious gooseberry?

I have always been mainstream. It's so weird, because I don't see it as something negative at all. So many people see it as something negative.

Of course, there's a certain type of person who feels that anything which becomes mainstream has to be rejected immediately. And that's part of the indie-alternative snobbery and hierarchy and elitism.

Democrat leaders are not only out of the American mainstream, but are also out of the Democratic mainstream.

When Nirvana hit it big, it was overwhelming because we were part of the counterculture. Nirvana didn't go to the mainstream - the mainstream came to Nirvana.

I like that idea that what I do might be mainstream. Might be.

The mainstream is generally garbage. Look at the heavily subsidized theaters.

I'm going to do everything I can to keep from being mainstream.

Every now and again, the alternative culture is cherished by the mainstream for what it is, rather than how it should be, like the mainstream popular music.

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.

Through my fiction, I make mainstream readers see the new Americans as complex human beings, not as just The Other.

I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.

Education, particularly higher education, will take Africa into the mainstream of globalization.

What I've become good at is bringing things that aren't necessarily mainstream to the mainstream. What I did see on Twitter was a potential for mass publication; it's a mainstream consumer broadcasting device. It transforms customers and companies. You have to be transparent or you fail.

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

I would say that everyone that you see who is successful in the mainstream, at the top of Billboard, who has a Top 40 hit... at some point, unless they're a complete fabrication of the industry with no identity of their own and a carbon copy clone of someone else, they in themselves started out being underground.

I think I am very mainstream - I'm committed to good works in my life.

The big dividing line is not and has never been between those who advocate more or less militant forms of resistance, or between mainstream and grassroots activists. The dividing line is between those who do something and those who do nothing.

You don't accomplish much by swimming with the mainstream. Hell, a dead fish can do that.

Donald Trump's fought, quite frankly, the entire mainstream media, who is always, you know, who's always counted him out, never thought he could do this, who's always put him down.

The failures of the press have contributed immensely to the emergence of a talk-show nation, in which public discourse is reduced to ranting and raving and posturing. We now have a mainstream press whose news agenda is increasingly influenced by this netherworld.

I am certainly not a mainstream religious man.

Don't rebel against the mainstream only to conform to the underground.

You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning.

These so-called extremists in Pakistan should be brought into the mainstream; if you marginalize them, you radicalize them.

I like to go from mainstream movies to more artsy films. I don't sign on for the money. Maybe I should, but I don't. There's always a good reason for doing something.

The mainstream media doesn't want to get into this because they don't want to know where this one goes.

Unless young blacks are brought into the mainstream of economic life, they will continue to be on the curbstone.

Mostly I do films that mainstream Hollywood wouldn't touch.

Because I have success, it doesn't mean I'm part of the mainstream. I'm still an outsider.

I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz.

It just seems like that because I do a lot of independent films that don't get to the mainstream.

...things become mainstream when they become imaged over and over again. Something happens in relationship to ideas of representation that makes it more palatable or digestible.

There are just a number of documents within the company and the industry that clearly indicate that secondhand smoke is just as dangerous, if not more dangerous, than mainstream smoke -- and the documents date back into the 70s.

The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream.

I do find that the mainstream media oftentimes is what I would consider off base or has a bias.

I do want to be in mainstream movies that are going to be seen. I suppose it satisfies the showbiz side of me.

I think Ron Paul's views are totally outside the mainstream of virtually every decent American.

Many of the mainstream agricultural scientists, especially at the agricultural schools, but at all of our major universities, are tied into all sorts of contractual relationships and consulting relationships with the life science companies.

These big questions: Who are we? Where are we? What are we doing here? They never ask that in the mainstream. They just leave that to religions to divert people off into rigid belief systems.

There was a time I had resentment against everything mainstream.

[Writing scripts] I'm not looking to jump in and make super mainstream movies. I still like to make movies that I like to see.

The mainstream is always under attack.

Why are the mainstream buzz things rarely contemporary? It doesn't happen very often. It's hard to feel culpable or implicated or even apathetic.

I have no bones to pick and no fight with society. And I'm willing to be and interested in being in the mainstream of society.

A lot of dudes can't function too long in mainstream life because they've been indoctrinated into that penal system where that shapes their life.

There's the exciting part about comedy - if you catch an act just before they go mainstream, that's the best. After they hit the mainstream, everything gets watered down a little bit.